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I find it interesting that there's all these independent AI-OCR Projects but still no commercial offering. Is it still too inaccurate, too complex or simply too
by 2big2fail_47 1y ago
I find it interesting that there's all these independent AI-OCR Projects but still no commercial offering. Is it still too inaccurate, too complex or simply too expensive?
- Annatar01 1y agoI dont know, but maybe existing commercial OCR is still on top, and also using ML. Recently tried a free trial for OCR/reading Sütterlin and it was a weird feeling being so outclassed in reading.
- Eisenstein 1y agoIt is because the AI is not actually doing OCR. It is giving an interpretation of what the text in an image is by ingesting vision tokens and mapping them onto text tokens. So you either have to be fine with a lot of uncertainty as to the accuracy of that interpretation or you have to wait for an LLM that can do it in a completely reproducible way every time.
- rsolva 1y agoMistral offers their OCR commercially through their API and in their Chat services, at least. https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr
- simlevesque 1y agohttps://cloud.google.com/document-ai https://cloud.google.com/document-ai
- daemonologist 1y agoThere are commercial OCR offerings from the big cloud providers (plus, like, Adobe). In my experience they generally outperform anything open-weights, although there's been a lot of improvement in VLMs in the past year or two.
- aleinin 1y agoOne that I’ve seen recently is https://reducto.ai https://reducto.ai It appears to be an OCR wrapper.
- prats226 1y agohttps://docstrange.nanonets.com/ https://docstrange.nanonets.com/ as well, wrapper on top of 7B version of https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR2-3B https://huggingface.co/nanonets/Nanonets-OCR2-3B