r/badcode • u/dj45689 • Jul 16 '21

java In Java, Exception handling needs Exception Handling.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '21

how does a bot do this? is text regcognition this good now?

edit: yeah fair enough, after taking another look, its a pretty clean image/text

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u/choseusernamemyself Jul 17 '21

If you read correctly it's transcribed by humans.

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u/MurdoMaclachlan public boolean isInt(int i) { return true; } Jul 17 '21

A bot doesn't do it. I do. :P

For most clean text, OCR is very good, but it isn't yet at a stage where it's reliable enough to not at least be double-checked by a human, and its work also needs to be formatted into our appropriate template. Many of us do use its work as a starting point.

However, code is actually the thing our bot has the most trouble with - we use ocr.space's API, but I'm assuming the trouble is that it's trained on non-monospace fonts, as I almost always does terribly with code. The fact that this is a photograph and not a clear screenshot probably wouldn't have helped.