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Re:Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. M... by bpchaps on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:17PM (#20474000)
Do you know how good it is? I have a LOT of structured documents that I need to OCR.
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Re:Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. M... by CorneliaKara on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:30PM (#20474565)
MSFT person here - give it a try! sign up, and you get a free trial that can allow you to easily benchmark.
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Re:Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. M... by Havoc on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:40PM (#20474648)
Interesting. That is actually something I've been looking for and I do have a msdn sub.

fyi that defaulted to indian rupee as default currency for me (UK based & zero indian connections). Weird

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Re:Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. M... by dav43 on Thursday July 18, 2019 @06:39PM (#20474635)
Have you tried the tabula free program? I use it for some finance work reading filings.

http://tabula.technology/

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Re:Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. M... by bpchaps on Thursday July 18, 2019 @07:28PM (#20474984)
Yep! It's great, but is maybe 60% there, so I'm looking for something that can extract much more structure from a document. I doubt what I'm looking for will exist for another 10 years, though.
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Re:Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. M... by leeoniya on Thursday July 18, 2019 @08:16PM (#20475208)
is it feasible to create loose templates for where the data is and extract that way? i have a mothballed project that did pretty well. it was able to discern different templates from a mass of documents.
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Re:Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. M... by ocrcustomserver on Friday July 19, 2019 @05:53PM (#20482762)
I'm curious, if you email me a sample I can tell you what's possible.
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