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Re:Amazon Textract – Extract text and data from virtually an... by Holybeds on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @02:15PM (#18554667)
There's a difference between doing OCR and actually understanding what is what in the document content.

For normal text OCR works well. But automatically understanding what is what is more complex.

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Re:Amazon Textract – Extract text and data from virtually an... by njstraub608 on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @10:06PM (#18557708)
This ^^

And actually understanding the context of what you're trying to use OCR on can work backward to determine what the text actually is, i.e. if it's a "Name" field then the probabilities of ambiguous letters may change (in the case of handwriting rec).

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