can-google-ocr-this

Motivation

https://twitter.com/veydpz_public/status/1377960373098225677 (in Korean)

Looks like Google is possible to recognize characters in arbitrary images/videos, and show them on search results.

Here, I aim to check whether certain keywords can be recognized from Google. I'll try to produce hard examples as possible.

Examples

mspaint

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baby-toy

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doge (gif)

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word cloud

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ASCII Art -- this is not suitable for "Optical" Character Recognition, however, perhaps some day LMs might be able to recognize this!

                     _____                          
   ____   ________ _/ ____\   ______ ___  __  __ __ 
  / ___\  \___   / \   __\   / ____/ \  \/ / |  |  \
 / /_/  >  /    /   |  |    < <_|  |  \   /  |  |  /
 \___  /  /_____ \  |__|     \__   |   \_/   |____/ 
/_____/         \/              |__|                

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