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I just asked GPT6-Astra to transcribe a page from Newton's Principia to LaTeX. It did an amazing job outputing a XeLaTeX doc with a mixture of text and TikZ. Lo

by wenc 4d ago

I just asked GPT6-Astra to transcribe a page from Newton's Principia to LaTeX. It did an amazing job outputing a XeLaTeX doc with a mixture of text and TikZ. Looks really good.

aix1 4d ago
Did you do a pixel diff against the original? The output could look plausible at a glance but contain hard-to-spot errors or inaccuracies.
- userbinator 4d ago
  Unchecked OCR can lead to amusing results: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18374359
loloquwowndueo 3d ago
Nice! Where is it? Thanks for sharing. (Also hopefully not in GitHub , it’s always down)
- wenc 3d ago
  Orig image (2nd page): https://lib.utah.edu/collections/rarebooks/database/science/principia.php https://lib.utah.edu/collections/rarebooks/database/science/... XeLaTeX: https://nullpaste.org/mcKAFOqJmbZv https://nullpaste.org/mcKAFOqJmbZv PDF output: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rfaio8a6pgem98fy8cxzb/principia-page-283.pdf?rlkey=zqtuus0yyrbn2e168qg1jijvt&st=r753lqhp&dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/rfaio8a6pgem98fy8cxzb/princip...