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Does it work well on photographs ? I’d love to run it on my photo library so I can search for shop names etc!
by ramraj07 5y ago
Does it work well on photographs ? I’d love to run it on my photo library so I can search for shop names etc!
- simonw 5y agoI just tried it on a photo of a fish counter at a supermarket with some text labels on some of the fish and it did very well (printed text, in focus) - so yeah this may well be worth trying!
- markmaglana 5y agoThis is the OCR engine used by Mayan EDMS[1] which I've used since 2018. The reliability has been topnotch. [1] https://www.mayan-edms.com/ https://www.mayan-edms.com/
- alexcnwy 5y agoTesseract is mainly for documents and generally doesn’t work well on photos but you can try EasyOCR for photos.
- jimmySixDOF 5y agoFor Android there is a old project from Mozilla that just works like a firecracker on whatever size screenshot directory you have : Firefox ScreenshotGo[beta] https://mzl.la/2NMgD30 https://mzl.la/2NMgD30
- piceas 5y agoIt uses Google firebase on device ML OCR (appears to be rebranded as ML Kit). https://github.com/mozilla-tw/ScreenshotGo https://github.com/mozilla-tw/ScreenshotGo
- eastendguy 5y agoTesseract is not really good for text on pictures (non-white background). You can use the free Space OCR API at https://ocr.space https://ocr.space instead. Or, just upload your photographs to Google Photos. Google OCRs all images automatically(!) and you can search them for text in the images. This includes text e. g. on posters in the background.
- garblegarble 5y ago>Does it work well on photographs Usefully, the new macOS / iOS releases will do this automatically (although for macOS you'll need to be running Apple Silicon)