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What's the fastest and accurate CLI OCR tool? My use case is simple - I want to be able to grab a piece of screen (Flameshot is great for that), and OCR it. I n
by iLemming 2y ago
What's the fastest and accurate CLI OCR tool? My use case is simple - I want to be able to grab a piece of screen (Flameshot is great for that), and OCR it. I need this for note-taking during pair-programming over Zoom.
Currently I'm using tesseract - it works, it's fast, but it also makes mistakes; it would be also great if it could discern tabular data and put them in ascii or markdown tables. I've tried docling, but it feels like a bit of an overkill. It seems to be slower - remember, I need to be able to grab the text from the screenshot very quickly. I have only tried default settings, maybe tweaking it would improve things.
Can anyone share some thoughts on this? Thanks!
- acdha 2y agoAnything using the Apple Vision framework is fast and surprisingly accurate: https://github.com/bytefer/macos-vision-ocr https://github.com/bytefer/macos-vision-ocr
- cdolan 2y agoCool to see, may use this locally for OCR in some cases. But I think the "handwriting" example is a little misleading. Thats a font, not a scan of hand written material
- wahnfrieden 2y agoThis uses the old APIs that are less accurate than the new Swift-only LiveText ones
- ANighRaisin 2y agoThe AI OCR build into snipping tool in windows is better than tesseract, albeit more inconvenient than something like powertoys or Capture2Text, which use a quick shortcut.