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This is really cool if it delivers. I tried building an app to scan till receipts. The image to text APIs out there really don't perform as well as you'd think.
by ryanjshaw 3y ago
This is really cool if it delivers. I tried building an app to scan till receipts. The image to text APIs out there really don't perform as well as you'd think. AWS Text Extract performed far better than GCP and Azure equivalents and traditional OCR solutions, but it still made some really annoying errors that I had to fix with heuristics.
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- werdnapk 3y agoWas Tesseract one of the APIs you tried?
- ryanjshaw 3y agoYup, it was solid but not as good as AWS out of the box. IIRC preprocessing the image did help, but I didn't have enough time to spend on fleshing that out for an MVP. (I gave up on the project when I realised that recently introduced protection of personal information laws in my country would have made this project too risky to continue work on. The intention was to automatically extract spending habits from receipts to improve personal finance management.)
- DannyBee 3y agoUnfortunately, trying this out, it seems to be nowhere near the claimed quality. Definitely not ready for prime time. Feels like someone trying to throw a stake in the ground rather than releasing a quality product, honestly.