Why doesn't OCR use AI?

Question

Hi! Adobe is pushing AI, but why doesn't Adobe use AI to improve the OCR? Like knowing that "Will" is more likely than "Wi11" and "The end of the day" is more likely than "Th eendo fthed ay"? Thanks! (And get it to whiz up some code to default "enable scrolling" on viewing PDF's? Who doesn't like scrolling?

Randy Hagan · Answer

TBH, I would prefer that it didn't.

By limited experience with other OCR software that did use AI to help fill in errors, I've discovered that it's rather fallible. I'd rather pick off the obvious errors that appear in Acrobat OCR and correct them as I find them than have to proof for wrong word, but perfectly spelled wrong word choices, in the resulting OCR output. Think of your phone spell-checking your texting entries into sometimes hilarious, sometime tragic, "corrections" on the fly for a relevant example.

YMMV, of course. But I don't necessarily think that AI interpretations, much less hallucinations, is the best choice here.

Randy

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