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Re:Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs by jiaweihli on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:48PM (#10747215)
Have you looked into ocropy[0]?

Here's a nice intro[1] that later talks about how it achieves higher accuracy using an LSTM model[2].

[0] https://github.com/tmbdev/ocropy

[1] http://www.danvk.org/2015/01/09/extracting-text-from-an-imag...

[2] http://www.danvk.org/2015/01/11/training-an-ocropus-ocr-mode...

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Re:Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs by cfcef on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @04:52PM (#10747637)
I have not. It sounds interesting but raw and unsuitable for end-users. I hope the quality improves and they can get it packaged up in a way that existing document scanners can plug into easily.
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Re:Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs by jahewson on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @06:48PM (#10748346)
Note that the primary author of ocropy (formerly ocropus) works at Google.
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