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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by cptskippy on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:30PM (#15665630)
> I played around with the open source Tesseract OCR, but it was way behind commercial desktop packages in accuracy/usability. It lagged especially in dealing with different document layouts.

How long ago did you use it? We use it to OCR photos of paper checks taken via smartphone and pull contact information out. It works pretty well.

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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by philipkglass on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:33PM (#15665650)
It was 4+ years ago. I don't remember exactly when, but the project was still hosted on Google Code at the time.

I was trying to OCR scanned scientific publications with multi-column layout and figures. I didn't expect anything to get all the captions right, or handle specialized notation, but it was important to recognize all the ordinary English words on the page and to have the text flow in the right order.

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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by gebruikersnaam on Thursday November 09, 2017 @03:42PM (#15665710)
The alpha version (4.0) is significantly better than the stable version (3.05).
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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by redindian on Thursday November 09, 2017 @07:47PM (#15667080)
I have a similar need. Is there any OSS projects which does this?

Snap a picture of a fixed layout form from smartphone & extract TYPED data

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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by ocrcustomserver on Thursday November 09, 2017 @11:44PM (#15667996)
If you're looking for full page OCR, check out ocrmypdf (uses Tesseract).

If you want to extract data out of documents/forms then you need to develop your own solution (I'm doing work in this area) or use expensive packages like ABBYY FlexiCapture.

Images taken from a smartphone (compared to scanned documents) is going to make the problem harder.

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