ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & creating digitized docs

Re:ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & cr... by zihotki on Friday October 10, 2025 @02:12AM (#45535802)

According to what I read in the documentation, it uses Tesseract underneath. I've used Tesseract v3 in the past and it was pain. Tesseract 4 uses LSTM neural net. How good is the performance and quality of the recognition nowadays in v4? Could anyone share his experience?

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Re:ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & cr... by graynk on Friday October 10, 2025 @04:18AM (#45536479)

I use paperless-ngx for digitizing all my documents, it also uses Tesseract. The result is not perfect, but more than acceptable, if I scan at 600dpi

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Re:ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & cr... by oigursh on Monday October 13, 2025 @09:41AM (#45568235)

There's https://github.com/icereed/paperless-gpt as a plugin

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Re:ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & cr... by graynk on Monday October 27, 2025 @08:25AM (#45720182)

Local LLMs I've found to not be good enough for OCR (while being a lot more resource hungry), and OpenAI models I want to avoid for privacy reasons. Default tesseract does the job for me, since my only requirements for the results it "I can easily find what I need with full-text search" - I rarely need to actually copy the text from the resulting PDFs

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Re:ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & cr... by btian on Friday October 10, 2025 @07:42PM (#45545049)

it's fine for simple use cases, but far inferior to the likes of GPT, Gemini or Mistral

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