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this still seems GPL. another OCR worth considering is easyOCR [0] (apache license). AFAIK there is not layout detection but they do provide bounding boxes and

by pzo 2y ago

this still seems GPL. another OCR worth considering is easyOCR [0] (apache license). AFAIK there is not layout detection but they do provide bounding boxes and support many languages also detecting text on many different world objects from images (signpost, etc) [0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

nhirschfeld 2y ago
Yup, easy OCR is good. My reasons for using Tesseract - easy OCR is larger, and it has a significant cold start. It benchmarks better for many OCR tasks though, so I'm thinking of adding it as an alternative backend.
- alex_suzuki 2y ago
  Any experience with Paddle OCR? https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR Personally I‘ve used Tesseract before but the results were underwhelming, so I‘m curious how Paddle OCR performs in comparison.
  - nhirschfeld 2y ago
    I haven't, testing it out is on my todo list for sure
- cdrini 2y ago
  Where did you find benchmarks for OCR tools? There have been so many OCR engines coming lately, I would love to see benchmarks!
  - nhirschfeld 2y ago
    I google this for a while...