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Tesseract works really good for literal OCR but I haven't had much luck before with more common work (like documents with tables and such). Has anything changed

Tesseract works really good for literal OCR but I haven't had much luck before with more common work (like documents with tables and such). Has anything changed as of late?

jacobolus 7y ago
Since October there is a new version, v4: “Added a new OCR engine that uses neural network system based on LSTMs, with major accuracy gains. [..] Added trained data that includes LSTM models to 123 languages.” No idea how well it does for structured content like tables. There seems to be a recent v2 of a javascript port (i.e. Tesseract v4 compiled to wasm), if anyone wants to do OCR in their browser: https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/tesseract-js-v2-alpha https://observablehq.com/@tmcw/tesseract-js-v2-alpha https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js https://github.com/naptha/tesseract.js