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Why does nobody talk about how long it takes to get a simple AI model to recognize your own handwriting?
I had this idea to digitize my old notebooks using a local AI tool, thinking it would be a weekend project. I figured I'd just train a model on a few pages of my scribbles and it would get the hang of it. Boy, was I wrong. The first model I tried, a basic OCR setup, failed so badly it read my 'm's as 'w's and my 'e's as 'c's. I spent a full month, probably 40 hours total, collecting more samples, tweaking the training data, and adjusting the parameters. The real kicker was when it finally started working decently, but only on my notes from 2020, not my current ones (my handwriting got worse, I guess). Has anyone else gone down this rabbit hole and found a better way to do personal handwriting recognition without it becoming a second job?
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bennett.james7d ago
my handwriting got worse" is a universal truth, my grocery lists are just angry lines now.
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dylan6047d ago
Ugh, I feel your pain... I ended up just using a good scanner app that lets you fix the text as you go, way less headache than training a model. Bennett.james is right about the angry lines, so I stopped fighting it. Sometimes the simple fix is just better for the job.
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