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Would you mind commenting why Tesseract is out of date? I see developers are still active on it: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commits/master http
by marai2 10y ago
Would you mind commenting why Tesseract is out of date? I see developers are still active on it:
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commits/master https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commits/master
- malux85 10y agoThere are people still working on VAX systems - are VAX systems not out of date by the same logic? Spend 1 afternoon with tesseract, and 1 afternoon with Googles text recognition API. The quality of the results is night and day. I would love there to be an open source one that can complete, which is why I said "sadly". But if you're interested in quality of results, Deep Learning is the way to go.
- acdha 10y agoGoogle has been one of the biggest contributors to Tesseract – has that changed? My understanding – which could be years out of date – was that Google Books used Tesseract but that most of their effort had gone into either advanced image preprocessing or large-scale training.
- malux85 10y agoYes you're right - they were one of the biggest contributors until a 12-18 months ago (roughly) Now it's deep learning, it's at the point now where there's no point in spending ages manually 'feature engineering', just throw some GPU and soon to be TPU processing power at it
- acdha 10y agoThanks for the update – has any of that been described in public?
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