If you are (a) willing to take the word bounding boxes and convert them to paragraphs yourself, and (b) okay with a deep learning approach, you may want to give

If you are (a) willing to take the word bounding boxes and convert them to paragraphs yourself, and (b) okay with a deep learning approach, you may want to give keras-ocr [0] a try. Full disclosure: I'm the primary package developer. Shameless plug. :) [0] https://github.com/faustomorales/keras-ocr https://github.com/faustomorales/keras-ocr