> Would love to find a cheaper (local) option vs AWS How about tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

> Would love to find a cheaper (local) option vs AWS How about tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) There’s even a library for php (https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php). Haven’t used it. I did used python Pytesseract & works fairly well.