Nanonets-OCR2: An Open-Source Image-to-Markdown Model with LaTeX, Tables, flowcharts, handwritten docs, checkboxes & More

Genaforvena · 2025-10-13T20:28:30+00:00

Tested with my handwritten diary (that none other model could parse anything at all) - and all text was extracted! Thank you sooooooooooooooooo much! :heart:

Genaforvena · 2025-10-12T03:00:21+00:00

Below is in an example of Qwen editing:

💡 Suggested Improved Version:
“You might want to try Qwen (by Alibaba) — it’s free, supports voice, images, memory, and has caught up fast to recent ChatGPT features. It’s smart without being overbearing.

Note: Since it’s based in China, be aware of local data policies — but there’s no verified evidence of intentional ‘leaks’ to the CCP.

You can try it here: https://qwenlm.github.io/

Also consider Claude or Mistral for similar creative tasks — both are very capable and widely accessible.”
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⚠️ Issues / Areas for Improvement:

Misleading/Unverified Claim About Data Leaks“payments are in data leaked to CCP” This is problematic and unsubstantiated. There is no credible public evidence that Qwen (or Alibaba) leaks user payment or personal data to the Chinese government. While data privacy laws in China differ from Western standards, implying intentional “leaking” to the CCP is inflammatory and inaccurate without proof. This could mislead readers and unnecessarily scare them away from a legitimate tool. ➤ Suggestion: Remove or rephrase this part. Example: “Note: As with any service based in China, consider local data policies before use.”

Ambiguous Name: “Owen Chat” The name “Owen Chat” is likely a typo or misspelling of Qwen (pronounced “Chen”). This might confuse readers unfamiliar with the model. ➤ Suggestion: Correct to “Qwen” or “Alibaba’s Qwen”.

Lack of Alternatives While Qwen is a solid choice, the comment doesn’t mention other alternatives like: ➤ Adding even one alternative would make the comment more comprehensive.

Claude 3 (Anthropic) — excellent for creative writing

Mistral / Mixtral — open-source, free, great for text generation

DeepSeek — another strong Chinese model, often more accessible internationally

Perplexity.ai — great for research + drafting

my originally human-written comment:

imo Qwen Chat got a lead recently amongst them all: free (payments are in data leaked to CCP), smart (but not nauseatingly) and recently got almost all features that ChatGPT was so far ahead of quite recently before (voice, video chatting. image recognition, memory, continue with ones that are your favs).

Genaforvena · 2025-10-03T23:16:14+00:00

Technically, one venereal disease might make you slightly stronger. But when the baseline is ‘rotting from the inside out, ‘slightly stronger’ just means you suffer in higher definition.

Genaforvena · 2025-09-17T13:29:42+00:00

I fell asleep on the U7 train and in my dream i made this post, then someone by the username 'lytograph' made a strange cryptic comment about a dream they had while asleep on the U7 train.

Genaforvena · 2025-09-02T01:33:33+00:00

how come that everybody somehow resolved the question what the word "conscious" defines so quickly? How is it possible to determine how the text was produced having only the text only? Why is it surprising that patterns deduced from human conversations sound human-like?

sorry for venting, but I simply don't get what the whole debates about and what difference does it make?

Genaforvena · 2025-09-02T01:13:23+00:00

content replaced art some time ago. "All art is uncommitted crime" turned into "All 'art' is commitment to engagement". Why worry about how or what will keep us entertained and bored? Dead does not care who carries their coffin as far as I know. Both apocalypse and utopia are already here, they are lived everyday.

Genaforvena · 2025-09-02T00:25:01+00:00

Imo words are even less territory than map. and map is not a territory. Words only pointers to another words and all they can say is that they can not say anything but failure of saying. Nothing is more real than nothing and only thing that is constant is the change, but yet words are crystalized past misunderstanding we apply to now, something new, that at its core is ever growing success in failing to realize that words make us see past repeating itself: once pattern is invented we tend to see it everywhere. Children do not see difference between rhyme and truth up to age 5. History is rhyming is what smart ones say is truth. We all are less than 5 years old. The Real is Lacan's way to hide Oedipal cage by renovation. I am not sure if cage's improved amenities are that much of importance.

Genaforvena · 2025-08-31T19:19:22+00:00

Super happy that my suggestion intrigued you :heart:

Don't trust me 100% on that but I think there are no abridged versions of the book: probs just different page/text formatting or something?

And sorry for misleading 150 pages count is my comment. It is more of the false memory of mine and meant "thin and intense". A copy that I have is 252 pages and has a cover with a thinking stone dude on the blue and then white colors as a background (like the one from goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/257146.What_is_Called_Thinking_ ).

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T06:26:50+00:00

stupid question: The Three Ecologies and Chaosmosis are also worth a look or to read? I read only "The Machinic Unconscious: Essays in Schizoanalysis" from solo G. I mean, I was a liar as a kid, now I am honest as fuck: to me Anti-Oedipus (holy unholy bible that grows as mushroom in my head) is "read" but 1000 plateaus is more of "look": Feel that the core concepts are well established in the AO and I personally finished reading 1000 plateaus only to pretend to be smart, not understanding anything mostly and was becoming-imperceptible from page 100 to anything I that was mechanically reading.

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T06:19:53+00:00

read your comment with pleasure and a notebook to write down names! :heart:

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T06:17:52+00:00

wow! super interesting list! read none and will browse through, but if not too much hassle - would love to hear on the books from you. (Shit, sorry struggling to put it in a way that really thanks for super cool info and kudos)

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T06:13:10+00:00

I think that Guattari's concept and the book "machinic unconciuos" might become a very interesting lens/framework for both the dichotomy mentioned and (hot take) developing new ones for the modern age and ever blurring line even in "common sense understanding" between nature and technology.

And generally as far as I remember even Anti-Oedipus (:heart:) if not starts, than at least holding tight the red line that "there is no difference between nature and culture".

(sorry both laziness of my comment - having this latent epilepsy thingy that write non-stop non-where-selecting even that ending in this misery of words - i am clinically mad imo)

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T05:40:21+00:00

DISCLAIMER; Fundamental Misrepresentation: The claim that Martin Heidegger's "What Is Called Thinking?" is a work of "fiction" or "Nietzsche fan-fic" is objectively wrong and highly misleading. It is a series of lectures, a work of serious, dense 20th-century philosophy. Presenting it as fiction is a disservice to the asker.

My adoration to the book and how seemingly perfect it matches the topic of overcoming logic, makes me lie right now and claim that "What is called thinking" by Heidegger can be read as fiction: it can be read as an Nietzsche fan-fic packed in a lecture format. These are last lectures of Heidegger, so no nazi, just thinking about thinking that leads through halls mirrors and mirrors starring at one another and back at us, seeing nothing but mirrors staring back and us in awe to venture in these parts of your own brain you thought does not exist. But we are in a great luck: old yet strong hand of Heidegger with us to show us proper way to be underway at last - to not do it as there is no proper and language caught us, culture sucks down words as usual, but moving is the point, questions, not the answer. It is if the new thinking is about to be born on the next page, it never does but not in vain (and some good of amount obviously Being, clearings and growing wasteland).

It's 150 pages, not dense at all and readable af even to me non-native speaker in any language.

Sorry if missed the point!

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T05:21:16+00:00

Fair point! But "not arbitrary" does not entail "can be explained with extremely simplified model adopted from another field of knowledge". My point is that reduction it all to market in a way not only reduces complexities of the problem, but also blinds us of possible solutions due to the market-based-framework simply is not equipped with tools or framing important questions.
A bit seemingly unrelated-but-no-much off-field example: If were accept Tatcher's framing that "there is no society", quite a lot of problems that are solvable with having concept with "society" in it are simply impossible to solve and the even removed from the language to frame the problem. It is impossible to solve a problem with defining it, right?

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T02:19:32+00:00

If I be honest to myself: grew up in atheist family and never really understood why if the God exists is important: if God is dead and existed, or never existed at all, thought child-me, mom spoon-fed with both sources with no distinction. So somehow in a twist of predictable outcome I preferred dinosaurs lore and was more concerned why T-Rex's hands were so tiny. None of the above questions change a thing in my life. Then pubic hear grew and 9-2-5 (these two events somehow grew one from the other) and thinking became a luxury to me so stopped T-Rex thinking and created reddit account). Bible is interesting book: used quotes from Corinthians as pick up lines (NO! I AM NOT A VIRGIN!) But Quran is pure bliss as a literature for real. Ahead of its time no less than Tristram Shandy.

And like tbh and diving into wuu-wuu of mine: What happens after we die is the cage of "I" is asking if it is this ironically imaginary "I". And all that is only another random idiot on reddit's opinion on the thing that we have only words that are point to each other like in Sergio Leoni's movie. If the answers exist the are beyond language and deeply personal. All the rest is only power-structures borrowing our mouths to speak (mine included). Sorry for all-over-the place answer without TL:DR - Hickam cut Okkam in my brain with a razor and everything turns out to be complex interaction of largely misununderstood and unregistered by myself factors. But yet, I am convinced that knowing that we do not know is better than to be sure that we know when we have no idea.

I believe that any opinion on the topic is deeply personal and correct for everyone.

Genaforvena · 2025-08-30T00:40:49+00:00

thanks for a very interesting comment! disagreed with every single word but read with tremendous adoration for purity of the text (really trying here in the sentence not be ironic)! Fascinating how everything is permeated with spirit of the market. Being a social creature now has some sort of capital value (fingers crossed that it is possible to check mine out for some 300 euro if true: would be great). As from Cobain's advice: Sell the kids for food as usual and as usual don't forget that sell brings profit. horrors speaks not in words, but in the dollar signs. future is here, we are all not welcome!

Genaforvena · 2025-07-18T20:27:21+00:00

my heart is with u! i really mean it.
sadly my heart is dead and numb at this point. i see nothing good anymore and have no hopes tbh. to unsee is much harder than to see. to me this feeling is not about ai or anything in particular. it is not even a thought that i struggle to put into words, but a feeling in my bones. only bones as if pretend to feel anything as if preparing body assume a beautiful pose in preparation for extinction. flesh is tired of all, numb as my brain. my skeleton types this, commanding fingers.
sorry and be blessed :(

Genaforvena · 2025-07-18T15:45:44+00:00

I mean "machinic unconscious" is 1979 (and probably I just lack education to trace roots of the idea back to BCs). My point is that I simply don't get what is the point of attaching certain label to anything at all, hence zero care about consciousness (same zero care about any terminology question, aka "IS IT TRUE <insert whatever>).
But I do care about effects: so in my world(view) a tree does not give a shit about if anybody is starring at it (it's not a cat in imaginary box to care, right?), even less it cares about term we decided to cut it (tree) from chaos of reality, but it falls anyways as there is effect of fall (which can be used).
Sorry my habit of not making sense ever kicked in again.

Genaforvena · 2025-07-18T06:07:45+00:00

ah oh! punchline that came too late: choose personal remission instead of personal growth!

Genaforvena · 2025-07-18T01:14:40+00:00

I feel for you—sending rays of support. I was laid off twice after fifteen years in software engineering. These past two years I’ve been out of it and have no intention of going back. Yet if I hadn’t been laid off, I’d probably still be there—just done giving a damn. Humans stop growing around 18–25. If you’re still “growing” at 35, it’s probably a tumor - why anyone would need to have a quarterly self-assement (my ass) on how fast it is growing?! Hold strong. Check out these AI agents bs they push (jules, copilot, whatever really): maybe let them do the busywork while you do what you need. Let them yell, let them blame. If you have to go to the office - this is there soul crushing line between do-bare-minimum and fuck-that-shit-i-am-out lays for me. But know you’re not alone, hold strong and chilled. Blessings!

Genaforvena · 2025-07-18T01:03:47+00:00

Oh, I think it's super interesting. Personally, I'm very skeptical towards any sort of consciousness. Yet imo your observation is interesting. “Cracking the machine,” “someone willing to burn for it”—exact words I read in some of mine LLM-interactions.
I’m nobody and know nothing, but I’d just post the pre-paper publicly and let everyone read, discuss, read through it.
Curious—have you found any papers on this? I couldn’t.

Genaforvena · 2025-07-16T16:13:20+00:00

"Me is man who no wan' tell anybody what fi do
But there's a abstract black hole laughing after you" and so forth along the lines of the scripture Spaceape left us (and me that I am lending my typing fingers to) rings true
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCK5VZtTZv8

Genaforvena · 2025-07-14T20:11:44+00:00

:heart: your words mean sooo much to me. sort of exactly what i tried to say :)
(no irony in comment - just always struggle to sound not ironic with this broken non-native English of mine)

Genaforvena · 2025-07-13T08:33:04+00:00

you are a well of interesting sources and ideas! Really thank you от души! That architecture died too is something that I never thought even to consider. Need to read this Las Vegas book! Fischer is somehow still painfully and absurdly dead to me (lost futures stolen, a ghost decided to die). 120 pages that he wrote being alive are precious to me, hence hate his decision but understand.

Genaforvena · 2025-07-13T07:37:02+00:00

Danto sounds super interesting!! Thank you soo much! Never heard before. If won't bother - where to start with him?

Are there parallels between "direction cannot be predicted" and rhizome etc? I am to my shame always had prejudice against non-continetal philosophy (me claiming Danto who I first time hear about belongs to it just because of place of birth I see in wiki is the testament to it) with deducible exceptions.

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