<ul><li>Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that converts text from images or scanned documents into digital text.</li><li>Pieces extended OCR capabilities to transcribe programming code accurately by using Tesseract OCR engine with LSTM-based sequence prediction.</li><li>Challenges in optimizing OCR for code included addressing dark mode, noisy backgrounds, and low-resolution images.</li><li>Enhancements like pre-processing, post-processing for layout inference, and tailored evaluation enable production-grade OCR for developers at Pieces.</li></ul>

We Fine-Tuned our OCR to Read Code: Here’s What It Took (and What Broke)

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