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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by acdha on Thursday November 09, 2017 @05:20PM (#15666300)
I think your last point is correct: there's a huge gap between the kind of “hello world” demo the original poster was talking about and a product-level tool which has reasonable training data and performance across a non-trivial range of documents.

I think that getting there is a lot more work than OP anticipated.

Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by pault on Friday November 10, 2017 @01:05PM (#15671696)
OP here; yes, you've summed it up perfectly.