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A comment on Ask HN: What OCR tool do you use in your project?.

Re:Ask HN: What OCR tool do you use in your project? by smoldesu on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:49AM (#36759697)
I still use Tesseract. It's not the fastest or most-accurate anymore, but it gets what I need off of PDF files.
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Re:Ask HN: What OCR tool do you use in your project? by vikasr111 on Monday July 17, 2023 @11:58AM (#36759814)
Does it work well with scanned PDF? In my experiments it was not giving the correct output.
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Re:Ask HN: What OCR tool do you use in your project? by james-revisoai on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @08:50AM (#36771352)
Explore different page segmentation modes and make sure you are using v4 (it's a massive step up)
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