I do not believe this story.

Opus 4.8 scanned hundreds of PDFs for me recently with the worst handwriting imaginable. 100% successful, other than one record where even I could not figure out what was written.

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Insanity 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do not believe this story, because of the message I just posted above.

That's not really productive lol, I'm glad it worked for you but these models are non-deterministic and 'YMMV' very much applies everywhere. I had it parse receipts (in fairness, in variable lightning), all taken from iPhone cameras in the past year. And yeah, not a great job, about 20% failed to get the date correct. (Not outrageously wrong, e.g 05/20/2026 becomes 05/23/2026.

YMMV, glad it worked for you.

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bpodgursky 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Are you sure you weren't using Sonnet or a low-effort reasoning mode?

	▲	Insanity 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, lol

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9cb14c1ec0 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I believe it. Makes me curious what your prompt was that got such a good result out of Opus.