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> I played around with the open source Tesseract OCR, but it was way behind commercial desktop packages in accuracy/usability. It lagged especially in dealing w
by cptskippy 9y ago
> I played around with the open source Tesseract OCR, but it was way behind commercial desktop packages in accuracy/usability. It lagged especially in dealing with different document layouts.
How long ago did you use it? We use it to OCR photos of paper checks taken via smartphone and pull contact information out. It works pretty well.
- philipkglass 9y agoIt was 4+ years ago. I don't remember exactly when, but the project was still hosted on Google Code at the time. I was trying to OCR scanned scientific publications with multi-column layout and figures. I didn't expect anything to get all the captions right, or handle specialized notation, but it was important to recognize all the ordinary English words on the page and to have the text flow in the right order.
- gebruikersnaam 9y agoThe alpha version (4.0) is significantly better than the stable version (3.05).
- redindian 9y agoI have a similar need. Is there any OSS projects which does this? Snap a picture of a fixed layout form from smartphone & extract TYPED data
- ocrcustomserver 9y agoIf you're looking for full page OCR, check out ocrmypdf (uses Tesseract). If you want to extract data out of documents/forms then you need to develop your own solution (I'm doing work in this area) or use expensive packages like ABBYY FlexiCapture. Images taken from a smartphone (compared to scanned documents) is going to make the problem harder.