Sunday, October 19, 2025

handwriting recognition - ChatGPT is still the best

Uploading a page from my diary and checking how good the various LLMs are at handwriting recognition - ChatGPT is good for regular snaps.

ChatGPT -
JUN 7 FRI
 Social service instead of jogging as you're coming – making the Ashoka trees straight.
 Afternoon no class – we went to Mandir ~ 1:45, You came ~ 3:15. Vedaṁ, balloons, exerts, song – W/N pg writing & study this time Krishnamoorthy, IMI – problems in C...

Claude had done well at coding - better than ChatGPT and Gemini, but fared worse in handwriting recognition - Claude's version -
JUN 7 FRI
Bowl Service instead of dragging so forth coming - making the little trees sharply. Afternoon no class - we went to Nandu ~ 1:45, Su came ~ 3:15. Yadav, balloons, esotts, songs N/N pg writing & study his tone. Kishnamathy I/W - problems in C...

My corrected version - 
Social service instead of jogging as You're coming - making the Ashoka trees straight. Afternoon no class - we went to Mandir ~ 1:45 pm, You came ~ 3:15 pm. Vedam, balloons, escorts, song – WIN prg  during waiting at Mandir & study hours time. Krishnamoorthy, 1st MSc - problems in C...

Edit - 9 Nov - But when I edited together 5 pages to form a single long page, ChatGPT started hallucinating instead of transcribing!

Excerpt from ChatGPT's version of July 5-14 - 
JUL 5, FRI
 Toured Siddalingeshwar Plantation.
 Found good crop condition — 4½ acres of Amlan.
 Evening went to A.P.S. meeting at old students’ association.
 9:45 P.M. came home.
 Supper.

Actual corrected version,
"Pseudo heterodyning" - frustrating as could get only π phase change. Used signal analyzer to acquire data. S4 again seminars on 902...

Timetable again reverting to old schedule, 9 to 3, from Monday.




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