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Re:Tesseract OCR by an_opabinia on Sunday July 18, 2021 @10:44PM (#27878752)
Most people are best served by the big vendor OCRs. In my experience Amazon’s works the best, followed closely by Microsoft and Google at a distant third.
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Re:Tesseract OCR by connorproctor on Monday July 19, 2021 @02:35AM (#27879854)
When did you do this comparison? A couple years ago I did a comparison and found Google the best and Amazon to be not very good.

Agree it’s best to skip tesseract unless the free cost is important. We spent a lot of time trying to preprocess and tune tesseract before realizing cloud OCR solutions are much better and fairly cheap.

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Re:Tesseract OCR by fridif on Monday July 19, 2021 @04:15AM (#27880328)
I have been tasked with developing a Textract tool at work and so far I have been impressed with the complete accuracy of it for non-handwritten, non-photocopied documents.

I haven't seen it make any mistakes at all and responses take less than 3 seconds usually.

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