I Spent May Evaluating Different Engines for OCR

Google's new AI agent combed through my emails, documents, and calendar to plan a birthday party and still didn’t clock the person most important to me.

Optical character recognition now powers receipt scanning, ID verification, invoice automation, historical archive digitization, and stylus-based note apps. The OCR market is projected to reach $32.90 billion by 2030 at a 14.8% CAGR (Grand View Research, 2024), with intelligent character recognition — the handwriting-reading branch of OCR — growing fastest. Whether you’re building document parsing, […]

The post RBNZ: Preemptive hikes and neutral ceiling – TD Securities appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. TD Securities’ Prashant Newnaha shifts the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) call to start 25 bps hikes in July rather than September, keeping a total of four moves in the profile. Newnaha highlights RBNZ guidance that the OCR is likely to rise at coming meetings, while stressing a weak growth outlook and a more deeply negative output gap. He prefers receiving New Zealand rates on yield sell-offs, viewing the neutral rate near 3.50% as a ceiling. RBNZ path pulled forward to July “We retain 4 x 25bps RBNZ hikes in our cash rate profile, but forecast the hike cycle to commence from July and not September as per our prior forecast.” “None of these conditions were broken supporting a hike ahead of the May meeting and the RBNZ would not have had data to categorically show a breach of these conditions by the July meeting to hike then either.” “Nonetheless, the RBNZ yesterday declared act

The persistence of intermediary networks undermines sanctions, enabling Russian airlines to maintain near pre-sanctions fleet levels. The post Marine Equipments Centre resells engines to Russian airlines, skirting sanctions appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

This post demonstrates how Agentic AI and SAS Viya can modernize SME loan origination by combining OCR, LLMs, governed decisioning, and interactive dashboards to accelerate transparent, explainable, and scalable credit decisions. The post How Agentic AI Accelerates SME Credit Decisions with SAS Viya appeared first on SAS Blogs.

Investors are using the technology to analyse documents but are holding it back from more sensitive tasks

OpenAI just announced its new GPT-5.5 model, which the company calls its "smartest and most intuitive to use model yet, and the next step toward a new way of getting work done on a computer." OpenAI just released GPT-5.4 last month, but says that the new GPT-5.5 "excels" at tasks like writing and debugging code, doing research online, making spreadsheets and documents, and doing that work across different tools. "Instead of carefully managing every step, you can give GPT-5.5 a messy, multi-part task and trust it to plan, use tools, check its work, navigate through ambiguity, and keep going," according to OpenAI. The company also notes that … Read the full story at The Verge.

Learn how to upload and work with files in ChatGPT to analyze data, summarize documents, and generate content from PDFs, spreadsheets, and more.