9 Best Articles in 2022
tesseract.projectnaptha.com
Tesseract.js | Pure Javascript OCR for 62 Languages!
tesseract.projectnaptha.com
From 2016 · English Demo Chinese Demo Russian Demo Drop an English image on this page to OCR it! Click here to recognize text in the demo image, or drop an English image anywhere on this page.
Shared by 64, including Ana Rita, slumos, Agustin, Stephen C Sanders, Nils Hitze, GeoNomad, Mohamed JEBLI, Rick Roche, Matthias Lampe, Clemens, Jelan Ong, Thomas Kaul
Dropbox
Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning
Dropbox
~19 min read · From 2017 · In this post we will take you behind the scenes on how we built a state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition (OCR) pipeline for our mobile document scanner. We used computer vision and deep…
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tesseract.projectnaptha.com
Pure Javascript OCR for 100 Languages!
tesseract.projectnaptha.com
From 2019 · English Demo Chinese Demo Russian Demo Drop an English image on this page to OCR it! Click here to recognize text in the demo image, or drop an English image anywhere on this page.
Shared by 20, including Simone Corsi 💻🚀, Michael Donohoe, Mike Davidson
Google Cloud
Vision API - Image Content Analysis — Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud
7 min read · From 2015 · Cloud Vision API provides a comprehensive set of capabilities including object detection, ocr, explicit content, face, logo, and landmark detection.
Reader View · Shared by 70, including zeldman, non_lo_so._, Cameron Yick, Joe Lencioni, Bill Slawski ⚓ 🇺🇦, nuuk, Johannes Lenz, Lily Ray 😏
github.com
jbarlow83/OCRmyPDF: OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
github.com
From 2017 · OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched
Shared by 11, including Simon07, Nico Müller 🇺🇦
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2019 Examples to Compare OCR Services: Amazon Textract/Rekognition vs Google Vision vs Microsoft Cognitive Services
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3 min read · From 2019 · We're building a note app that will surface images+documents in full-text search, so it needs to do OCR as well as possible. Preferably at a low price. We hoped there would be a good, modern,…
Reader View · Shared by 16, including Clemens M. Schuster, Alex Kipman, Ahmad Ragab
OpenNews Source
Our Search for the Best OCR Tool, and What We Found
OpenNews Source
~11 min read · From 2019 · A side-by-side comparison of seven OCR tools using multiple kinds of documents, from Factful
Reader View · Shared by 13, including Melanie Kloes, SwiftOnSecurity, David Garner, Martin Steiger 🔥
github.com
JaidedAI/EasyOCR
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2020-07-05 · Ready-to-use OCR with 40+ languages supported including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai - JaidedAI/EasyOCR
Shared by 18, including Waqas Ahmed, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Dr. Ganapathi Pulipaka 🇺🇸, Real Python
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GitHub - matiastucci/ionic-ocr-example: Simple Ionic app using ocrad.js
github.com
From 2016 · ionic-ocr-example - :camera: Simple Ionic app using ocrad.js
Shared by 10, including Stephen C Sanders, Thomas Kaul
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Choosing the Right OCR Service for Extracting Text Data
urban-institute.medium.com
10 min read · Mar 25th · Optical character recognition, or OCR, is a key tool for people who want to build or collect text data. OCR uses machine learning to…
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PyImageSearch
Text Detection and OCR with Microsoft Cognitive Services
PyImageSearch
~13 min read · Mar 28th · Learn text detection and OCR using Microsoft Cognitive Services. Use python scripts to interface with Microsoft Cognitive Services.
Reader View · Shared by 6, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦
VentureBeat
How Automation Hero uses accurate AI to process documents
VentureBeat
3 min read · May 19th · Today, Automation Hero released a SaaS service the company claims takes a quantum leap in OCR document-processing accuracy.
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Prizmo Go Review: Smarter OCR with the iPhone’s Camera
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8 min read · From 2017 · I've long been using Prizmo to quickly extract text contained in photos using the iPhone's camera. Developed by Creaceed, Prizmo has always stood out among iOS scanner apps thanks to its accurate and fast OCR. While most scanner apps focus on digitizing documents and exporting PDFs, Prizmo complemented that functionality with the ability to recognize […]
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Screenotate
screenotate.com
4 min read · From 2017 · Screenotate is a screenshot-taking tool which uses OCR to recognize text + remembers added context, so you can search through your screenshots.
Reader View · Shared by 20, including Patrick Collison, DON’T PANIC, Hampus Jakobsson, Craig Mod, Luca Hammer
Tedium
OCR History: The Original Machine Learning
Tedium
6 min read · From 2017 · Teaching computers to read was one of the 20th century's great challenges. At first, the secret to optical character recognition was purpose-built type.
Shared by 11, including Jane, Ernie Smith
mathpix.com
Mathpix
mathpix.com
From 2018 · “ When I lost my .tex file to the Principia, I was devastated. Mathpix helped me effortlessly use equations from the Principia in my new work. I now have more time to stand beneath trees and get hit…
Shared by 38, including Ines Bieler, Patric Fornasier, Joanna J Bryson, Cameron Yick, David Garner, Dayyan Smith
Zapier
The Best Mobile Scanning and OCR Apps
Zapier
~12 min read · From 2018 · If you don't own a scanner, you can still digitize documents quickly with a mobile scanning app. If you need to turn your pages into a file you can edit, you'll want optical character recognition ...
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MacStories
GoodNotes Adds Superior Multiwindowing, Dark Mode, and OCR Scanning
MacStories
4 min read · From 2019 · When Apple introduces a fundamental change to how apps interact with iOS (and now iPadOS), it’s always fascinating to see the different ways those changes are adopted by third-party developers.…
Reader View · Shared by 14, including John Voorhees, Federico Viticci
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Build a better Bookshelf
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1 min read · From 2018 · I happen to use OneNote a lot recently, mainly for storing my handwritten notes thanks to the pretty accurate OCR feature. Then I realize, there's also a great usage of OCR in OneNote other than just…
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District CCTV ZONE
Deep Dive Into OCR for Receipt Recognition
District CCTV ZONE
6 min read · From 2017 · Learn about preprocessing to set up a receipt for recognition, text detection, optical character recognition, extracting meaning from images, and more.
Reader View · Shared by 10, including Marco Unternaehrer, Michael Weibel, rohit, Herbert Bay
Internet Archive
FOSS wins again: Free and Open Source Communities comes through on 19th Century Newspapers (and Books and…
Internet Archive
3 min read · 2020-11-24 · I have never been more encouraged and thankful to Free and Open Source communities. Three months ago I posted a request for help with OCR’ing and processing 19th Century Newspapers and we got soooo…
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