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I'd also be curious about this as I am presently dealing with some PDFs with both handwriting and poorly scanned type. I can read and understand these documents
by notjulianjaynes 2y ago
I'd also be curious about this as I am presently dealing with some PDFs with both handwriting and poorly scanned type. I can read and understand these documents but the text is not recognized using tesseract OCR.
- pbhjpbhj 2y agoI've been looking at handwriting recognition offerings and signed up for ChatGPT [1] to trial access for this task against Irish genealogical records, which it does quite well on. However, ChatGPT itself recommended that I use Transkribus [2]. That looks to be quite an esoteric interface, but my initial test suggests it's pretty good -- I've not made a proper comparison yet as I'm wanting to have a workflow of downloading images, transcribing them and maybe compiling them into a PDF with manual corrections. [1] an 'expert' like this but it wasn't this one I used, can't locate it right now as am on a different computer, https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LCtICWzCt-historical-handwriting-expert https://chat.openai.com/g/g-LCtICWzCt-historical-handwriting... [2] https://www.transkribus.org/ https://www.transkribus.org/
- flir 2y agoMy use-case was easier than yours (OCRing scans of microfiche of typewritten pages) but I found this https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF incredibly handy. I still had to write a bit of Python, mostly for levelling and centering the text blocks, but it really is a PDF swiss army knife.