The Cloud Vision "Try the API" tool. My photo is on the left with boxes drawn on it around the model number of the thermometer, the LCD temperature display and the little C shown below it. On the right is a Block 1 box with the model number and Block 2 showing 834, the current temperature.

Download link

Notices where this attachment appears

Simon Willison (simon@fedi.simonwillison.net)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 11:14:06 JST Simon Willison

Here's my latest weirdly specific GPT-4 enhanced project: we wanted to measure the temperature of a microwave Raku kiln (yes, that's a thing - talk to @natbat about it) over time without tediously watching the thermometer for hours... so instead we recorded a video of the thermometer then used ffmpeg and Google Cloud Vision to OCR readings from it into a database https://til.simonwillison.net/googlecloud/video-frame-ocr

In conversation Monday, 03-Apr-2023 11:14:06 JST from fedi.simonwillison.net permalink