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Summary: Nano Banana Pro is much better than recent models at copying images without errors. That lets us do a few useful things, like: Pre-process images for OCR, improving text recognition by cleaning up artifacts while preserving text shapes exactly. Convert textbook raster diagrams into clean vector-like images that vectorizers can process easily. Create in-betweens for cartoon animations Copy torn, stained 1950s survey maps into pristine, high-contrast replicas with boundary lines preserved pixel-perfectly. Redraw sewage map blueprints or refinery blueprints into clean schematics, separating the “pipes” from the “background noise”. … and more! GPT Image 1.5 has a good reputation for drawing exactly what you tell it to. ...

I sent an image to over a dozen LLMs that support vision, asking them: Detect objects in this 1280x720 px image and return their color and bounding boxes in pixels. Respond as a JSON object: {[label]: [color, x1, y1, x2, y2], …} None of the models did a good-enough job. It looks like we have some time to go before LLMs become good at bounding boxes. I've given them a subjective rating on a 1-5 scale below. ...

Google may acquire Riya. Riya can recognise faces and lettering in your pictures. Comments Sai 8 Dec 2005 11:50 pm: Hi, do post the rest of the tips for excel when you get the time. Good Stuff.

There’s software that can locate where you are using a photograph of buildings.

Amazing, what some people try and do with cats. And image recognition.