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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by tastyminerals on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @01:41AM (#22481674)
For accuracy and speed. The market SOTA Abbyy is far from being accurate.
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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by speedplane on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @01:48AM (#22481705)
> The market SOTA Abbyy is far from being accurate.

While Abbyy is likely the best, it's also incredibly expensive. Roughly on the order of $0.01/page or maybe at best a tenth of that in high volume.

For comparison, I run a bunch of OCR servers using the open source tesseract library. The machine-time on one of the major cloud providers works out to roughly $0.01 for 100-1000 pages.

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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by bhanhfo on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @07:57AM (#22483327)
OCR.space charges only $10 for 100,000 conversions. The quality is good, but not as good as Abbyy.
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Re:What's so hard about PDF text extraction? by minerals29 on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @02:25AM (#22481843)
It is the best and this is one of the reasons why PDF extraction is hard :)
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