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Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by greggman3 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:20AM (#27244620)
I didn't try the app yet but I use an app called "Yomiwa" to OCR Japanese. The biggest issue I find is that it seems to be trained on black on white images so if I try to OCR a sign with different colors, or some text on a product or menu, it often fails. For example I just tried it on the ingredients of the label of the soda I'm drinking which is white on black and it's completely failing.
Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by vicedvin on Saturday May 22, 2021 @05:22AM (#27244928)
Masking the background and making text black would solve this. I have used OpenCV for that before.
Re:Show HN: I wrote a free Mac app to OCR any text on screen by rjzzleep on Saturday May 22, 2021 @07:00AM (#27245361)
OCRmyPDF does that. Given the name I assume it's only for PDFs given the name, but theoretically it should work for any image without the need to extract it from the PDF.

https://github.com/jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF