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Productive and Safe Rust Binding for OCR

by theopsguy on 11/9/19, 7:52 PM with 4 comments

• by anaoum on 11/9/19, 8:34 PM

  While Tesseract has had some major improvements over the last few years, I still find that it performs much worse than the (paid) computer vision APIs offered by Google, Azure and AWS.

  Does anyone have recommendations for other open source OCR engines?

• by algaeontoast on 11/9/19, 9:12 PM

  Unrelated, but I recently had to archive some docs and photos and had to start looking for a solid scanner client / OCR software. Prizmo Pro for Mac is incredible, and was one of the only OCR apps I could find that utilized a local RNN.

  It’s results are nearly perfect and fast, 3-4x as accurate as adobe acrobat and easily 6-7x the speed.

  Even as a dev it blows me away things like OCR running locally on a MacBook has come this far.