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FWIW PyMuPDF doesn't do OCR. It extracts embedded text from a PDF, which in some cases is either non-existent or done with poor quality OCR (like some random im
by kkielhofner 3y ago
FWIW PyMuPDF doesn't do OCR. It extracts embedded text from a PDF, which in some cases is either non-existent or done with poor quality OCR (like some random implementation from whatever it was scanned with).
This implementation bolts on Tesseract which IME is typically not the best available.
- serjester 3y agoAuthor here. I’m very open to alternatives to PyMuPDF / tesseract because I agree OCR results are sub optimal and it has a restrictive license. I tried basic ones and found the results to be poor.
- mcbetz 3y agoThis article compares multiple solutions and recommends docTR (Apache License 2.0): https://source.opennews.org/articles/our-search-best-ocr-tool-2023/ https://source.opennews.org/articles/our-search-best-ocr-too...