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How long until I can get a highly accurate OCR of this PDF with open source tools? Everyone seems to point me at tesseract, but it does things like turn: CH
by aidenn0 3y ago
How long until I can get a highly accurate OCR of this PDF with open source tools?
Everyone seems to point me at tesseract, but it does things like turn:
CHAPTER III
into something like :
CHAPTER 1|l
Granted with sans-serif fonts, the characters themselves are ambiguous, but I have no idea how the language model lets that through.
- geor9e 3y agoYour assessment of open source OCR performance is the same as mine - it still sucks. Even proprietary large models like Google Gemini suck at it. If it helps at all, someone manually did it https://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/the-empire-strikes-back-first-draft-by-leigh-brackett-transcript/ https://www.starwarz.com/starkiller/the-empire-strikes-back-...