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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
What is the reason that you want to roll your own? Is it because you want to own the IP or for learning purposes?
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
For the state of the art check the ICDAR, DAS and ICFHR (for handwriting) conferences. For an overview: https://github.com/handong1587/handong1587.github.io/blob/ma...
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
What is the accuracy that you're getting from it?
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
From the Tesseract FAQ: "Can I use Tesseract for handwriting recognition? You can, but it won’t work very well, as Tesseract is designed for printed text. Look for projects focused on handwriting recognition." https://g
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
(literally just scale it up x2 or x4). Just to clarify, the input image should be 300dpi.
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
In this case, the use is extracting words that can be used in full-text search, so structural extraction isn't a key criteria. In case someone wants to know more, the former is known as "full page OCR" and the latter a
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
Typically OCR accuracy is measured in two ways, CER (Character error rate) and WER (Word error rate). If just one number is provided, it's typically CER. "Finding words in images" is a bit ambiguous. It can mean "word sp
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
"The problem is that while Textract works really well for well defined tabular data it does not work for tables where the rows and columns are implied with white space, instead of lines." This is what Tabula and Camelot call &quot
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
Accuracy of Google OCR vs Tesseract v4 (on books and web): https://imgur.com/a/Tj0TASf
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
The Apple Newton was capable of online OCR (doesn't have to do with internet connectivity in this case). As you mention, online OCR is when you input the strokes directly on the device vs offline OCR where the input is an image. Some t
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by ocrcustomserver 7y ago
I'm curious, if you email me a sample I can tell you what's possible.
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
The reason is that online OCR (this particular case) is entirely different from offline OCR. Online OCR is when you input the strokes directly on the tablet/phone, so it becomes a sequence of XY coordinates with an associated timestamp
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
Found this: https://www.reddit.com/r/datasets/comments/4lxnjj/request_li...
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
Does a list of all hospitals (in each state) exist somewhere?
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
pdfminer is another good library (Python).
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
If this is important to you (extraction of information like ID/name/date from non-searchable PDFs), you could send me an email and we could discuss it further. I might be able to help you with this.
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
Some videos that were just released: Announcing Amazon Textract, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHX7q4pMGbo Introducing Amazon Textract: Now in Preview, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hagvdqofRU4 Introduc
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
There's ABBYY FineReader Engine CLI for Linux: https://www.ocr4linux.com/
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
This is very interesting. I'm curious to see how they will execute on several points: 1. How it will deal with multiple templates that the system hasn't seen before. Especially when there is significant difference between the temp
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
As tracker1 mentioned, don't think of this as for reflowing text for different devices but as a data capture and documents processing solution. Example: You are dealing with a lot of PDF documents that contain unstructured information
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
Shameless plug: I work on custom solutions that do this locally, shoot me an email if interested.
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
There's Google Cloud Vision and Microsoft Cognitive Services that act as competitors to Amazon Rekognition, but AFAIK there's no offering from a FAANG that competes with AWS Textract. It looks like it's competing with ABBYY (
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
The docs page [1] (subject to change) mentions: Do you support handwriting? – We do not support handwriting extraction. [1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/textract/latest/dg/how-it-works-...
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
OneNote can do transcription (copy text from image).
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
Yeah, Evernote's OCR engine will generate possible candidates for every given word and will sort them internally by confidence score. Screenshot: https://s24953.pcdn.co/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/0
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
In tesseract, if you want to recognize both English and German you can use option -l deu+eng . If you want to perform language detection you can do the following: a. Invoke tesseract with "-l eng". b. Pass the output text to lang
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
I was surprised to see them also announce "Amazon Comprehend Medical" which is NLP for a specific vertical: https://aws.amazon.com/comprehend/medical/
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
You can also try https://docparser.com/ . If nothing works for you and you're comfortable with sharing an example file, you can send it to me and I could take a look.
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by ocrcustomserver 8y ago
Which OCR did you use?
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by ocrcustomserver 9y ago
Can you send me an email? I might have something like that working soon.

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