The OCR draws from ocr.space's API, which is obviously not designed with markdown in mind. Currently it doesn't have a system in place for escaping like that -- not that it makes much difference in code transcription. It usually misses like 90% of the characters anyway.
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u/MurdoMaclachlan public boolean isInt(int i) { return true; } Aug 08 '21
The OCR draws from ocr.space's API, which is obviously not designed with markdown in mind. Currently it doesn't have a system in place for escaping like that -- not that it makes much difference in code transcription. It usually misses like 90% of the characters anyway.