I appreciate having an OCR interface rather than having to chat with a bot, but unfortunately chatting with Gemini 3 gives far better results than this. I gave it the document Gemini 3 got a surprisingly good result on:
https://urn.digitalarkivet.no/URN:NBN:no-a1450-rk10101508282...
and the output wasn't even recognizably Danish.
Just out of pity I gave it a birthday card from my sister written in very readable modern handwriting, and while in managed to make the contents of that readable, the errors it made reveals that it has very little contextual intelligence. Even if ! and ? can be hard to tell apart sometimes, they weren't here, and you do not usually start a birthday letter with "Happy Birthday brother?"
Something I noticed about gemini: I've been experimenting with transcribing old handwritten gaelic archives. Qwen 235b a22b instruct appears to give a much more faithful reproduction compared to gemini, for the simple fact that gemini keeps hallucinating an old gaelic faerie tale
Voynich manuscript next :-)
> got a surprisingly good result
> the output wasn't even recognizably Danish
How would you know that it's good then?
I believe you misread. My reading is that Gemini 3 gave a good result on a certain input, so they gave the same input to this model and the result was poor.
Yes. I can also read maybe 60-80% of this document tolerably well myself, with effort.
You're correct.