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Re:Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for docu... by pzo on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:55AM (#43058494)

this still seems GPL. another OCR worth considering is easyOCR [0] (apache license). AFAIK there is not layout detection but they do provide bounding boxes and support many languages also detecting text on many different world objects from images (signpost, etc)

[0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

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Re:Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for docu... by nhirschfeld on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:02AM (#43058547)

Yup, easy OCR is good.

My reasons for using Tesseract - easy OCR is larger, and it has a significant cold start.

It benchmarks better for many OCR tasks though, so I'm thinking of adding it as an alternative backend.

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Re:Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for docu... by cdrini on Saturday February 15, 2025 @11:28AM (#43059751)

Where did you find benchmarks for OCR tools? There have been so many OCR engines coming lately, I would love to see benchmarks!

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Re:Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for docu... by nhirschfeld on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:20PM (#43060763)

I google this for a while...

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Re:Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for docu... by alex_suzuki on Saturday February 15, 2025 @09:20AM (#43058700)

Any experience with Paddle OCR? https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR

Personally I‘ve used Tesseract before but the results were underwhelming, so I‘m curious how Paddle OCR performs in comparison.

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Re:Show HN: Kreuzberg – Modern async Python library for docu... by nhirschfeld on Saturday February 15, 2025 @01:22PM (#43060782)

I haven't, testing it out is on my todo list for sure

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