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Ask HN: What's the best out-of-box Document OCR/Analyzing/recognition API?
I tried with Google Document AI and AWS Textract, they both seem a bit hard to use and AWS is especially pricy
- constantinum 3y agoUnstract, they are a month away from open source launch of automating document based workflows. They also have plug and play APIs Link - https://unstract.com/api-for-unstructured-data/ https://unstract.com/api-for-unstructured-data/
- pjerryhu 3y agoThank you!
- freddealmeida 3y agotesseract OCR is open source and very good. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract
- symmetrist 3y agoTesseract can run locally and you can also use other open source OCR models which use neural networks. I am pretty sure it is possible to fine-tune open source LLMs on images and get reasonable results.
- westurner 3y ago"Show HN: BetterOCR combines and corrects multiple OCR engines with an LLM" (2023) https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38056243 https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=38056243 : junhoyeo/BetterOCR: https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR : > Better text detection by combining multiple OCR engines (EasyOCR, Tesseract, and Pororo)
- pjerryhu 3y agoThank you so much! We went with AWS finally because we have startup credits, but good to know the options and previous discussions here!
- tmaly 3y agoI was using a Python module called easyocr. It was working for a while, but stopped recently. I switched over to pytesseract, a wrapper for tesseract. It was pretty simple to use and I got it working in 10 minutes.