Guides

• Extracting text from images: OCR and AI vision, and when each one wins

  Classical OCR and vision models fail in opposite ways. Here is how to tell which one your document needs.

• From recording to usable notes: what to do with three hours of audio

  Transcription is the easy part. The hard part is making three hours of audio findable six weeks later.

• Translating scanned documents without destroying the layout

  Translating a scan is two hard problems stacked. Here is where the pipeline usually breaks.

• Translating menus and signage: why it goes wrong so often

  Short text, no context, and a photo instead of a file — menus break translation tools in a specific, predictable way.