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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by phren0logy on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:30PM (#15665167)
I recently looked at a number of packages, and the best option in my opinion is ABBYY Finereader Pro for Mac. The mac version can easily be automated with Hazel or Automator, which adds features that cost +$400 more for the PC. The results are worlds better than Acrobat.
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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by philipkglass on Thursday November 09, 2017 @02:38PM (#15665241)
When I did my big project I was using the cheap standard edition of Finereader on (virtualized) Windows, and I built an automated pipeline for it with a combination of AutoHotkey, pdftk, Multivalent pdf tools, and Python.

I too tried the Acrobat OCR first and found it to be vastly inferior. One surprise was that (at the time at least) the OCR-by-Acrobat files were not only much less accurate in the text layer, but the file size also bloated up surprisingly.

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