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Thanks for asking! It's both. The OCR part is ofc CPU bound, but the entire text extraction involves reading files, or writing and then reading files. Without

Thanks for asking! It's both. The OCR part is ofc CPU bound, but the entire text extraction involves reading files, or writing and then reading files. Without async, these simply block. As for efficiency - if you're working in an async application context you have to "asyncify" these operations or suffer the consequences.

skavi 2y ago
in that case, what’s the deal with extract_bytes being async? i’m not incredibly familiar with python, but i’d expect a “byte string” to be in memory.
- nhirschfeld 2y ago
  You still need to write it to file to process it via pandoc/tesseract etc. There are alternative options to tesseract ofc.
  - LoganDark 2y ago
    > You still need to write it to file to process it via pandoc/tesseract etc. This sounds... I guess Pythonic? Sheesh.