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		bravura on June 21, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Neural networks in the 1990s Handwriting recognition on checks (LeCun et al 1989) wasn't really a small, purely academic experiment

sigmoid10 on June 21, 2023 [–]

And yet classical OCR techniques continued to dominate. Nothing happened in the industry on that front for over 20 years. That's as academic as it gets.

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