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I had a need to scan serial numbers from Apple's product boxes out of pictures taken by a random person on their phone.

All OCR tools that I have tried have failed. Granted, I would get much better results if I used OpenCV to detect the label, rotate/correct it, normalize contrast, etc.

But... I have tried the then new vision model from OpenAI and it did the trick so well it's wasn't feasible to consider anything else at that point.

I have checked all S/N afterwards for being correct via third-party API - and all of theme were. Sure, sometimes I had to check versions with 0/o and i/l/1 substitutions but I believe these kind of mistakes are non-issues.




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