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No multi-user accounts possible (work/private separation) or something like Samsung Knox. This is stopping me from switching.

You know very well that it is impossible to get accurate numbers at this point. Even the graveyards in Wuhan are currently locked and guarded.

So what kind of source do you expect me to link to?

"where even objectively true information"... do you have an example of this? What kind of recent news do you have in mind?

So far, all the Covid19 stats out of China proofed to be fake. But I am happy to stand corrected. What numbers proofed to be correct in hindsight?

What do people think about this? Is it ok to use Corona for promoting your business? "Corona-Discount" and all that? Asking for a friend.

I upvoted this just because of the nature.com link - but after I actually read it, I am disapointed. Summary:

Q: Why does the coronavirus spread so easily between people?

A: We don't know yet

The results presented not verified by experiments yet.

"But some researchers are cautious about overstating the role of the activation site in helping the coronavirus to spread more easily. “We don’t know if this is going to be a big deal or not,” says Jason McLellan, a structural biologist at the University of Texas at Austin"

Source added, excerpt here:

Professor Christian Drosten from the Charite clinic in Berlin, Germany, estimates the virus could infect up to 70 percent of the world or 5.2 billion people.

He said: “Presumably between 60 and 70 percent of the people will get infected but we don’t know in what timeframe.

“It can be two years or even longer. It will be more problematic if the infections occur in a short amount of time.

“That is why authorities are doing everything to recognise the origin of infections and slow down any further spread of the infection.”

According to Professor Drosten, the coronavirus epidemic could even match the Asian flu pandemic of 1957 and the 1968 flu pandemic, which began in Hong Kong.

In the former case, the Asian flu is estimated to have killed between one and two million people.

Professor Drosten said: “If the whole pandemic process lasts two years, we will manage.

“If it is only a year, it will be much more difficult because many more cases will occur all at the same time.

“The necessary number of beds for patients requiring intensive care unit therapy is difficult to predict.

Presumably between 60 and 70 percent of the people will get infected

Professor Christian Drosten, Charite clinic

“If we don’t do anything now, they may not be enough.”

Source added in my post above. The number comes from this guy: https://www.charite.de/en/service/en_person_detail/person/ad...

Scientific agreement seems to be that ~60-70% of the population will get infected. It is just not sure if within months or (hopefully!) years.

And no drugs within at least one year.

Edit: Source => Original in German here: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/gesundheit/krankheiten-experte-e...

Express UK translated it here: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1249963/Coronavirus-n...

The guy interview is Prof. Drosten. He is the co-discoverer of the SARS virus, and is one of the top 10 guys in this field.

PS: Sorry for not adding the source right away.

OCR.space charges only $10 for 100,000 conversions. The quality is good, but not as good as Abbyy.

On the other hand... OCR is meanwhile so good that it can be used for many PDF text extraction projects. So often there is no longer the need to bother with PDF internals, just screenshot the PDF document and parse it. A free pdf ocr service is for example ocr.space.

The amount of up- and downvoting on anything China related feels insane. I wish someone at Hackernews will write a blog post about this some day (accounts, IP addresses, and whatever other data they have). From a casual reader perspective, I feel I have not seen this pattern on other controversial topics that sometimes show up here, e. g. gun control.

Hongkong, as part of China, is unfortunately governed more and more by fear. Plus the lady in charge is refusing to close the border to China.

Compare this to Taiwan, where things are more or less running smoothly.

if and when the first few people will get infected by the virus.

...that already happened

Is this dedicated receipt OCR significantly better then the out-of-the box OCR you get from Google Cloud Vision, Abbyy or OCR.space?

As standard OCR gets better and better, the room for specialized OCR solutions is becoming smaller.

Tesseract needs text on a white background to work well out of the box. For "text on images" try for example https://ocr.space/ocrapi

Tesseract is optimized for images with white backgrounds. ID cards or movie screenshots do not work well.

As far as I know, it powers all OCR at Google (e.g. in Keep, Docs, etc.).

Afaik Google no longer uses Tesseract for any of its products. Googles Clould OCR is much better than Tesseract.

I think Google devs still work on Tesseract, but only as their side project (not sure about this, obviously)

Related Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/project-naptha/mol...

Another extension (not using Tesseract.JS): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copyfish-%F0%9F%90...