EasyOCR

Maybe you should try something like EasyOCR instead: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

I have tried a bunch of things. This is what worked best for me: Surya [0]. It can run fully local on your laptop. I also tried EasyOCR [1], which is also quite good. I haven't tried this myself, but I will look at Paddle [2] if the previous two don't float your boat. All of these are OSS, and you don't need to pay a dime to anyone. [0]: https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya [1]: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR [2]: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle

this still seems GPL. another OCR worth considering is easyOCR [0] (apache license). AFAIK there is not layout detection but they do provide bounding boxes and support many languages also detecting text on many different world objects from images (signpost, etc) [0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

I’m surprised everyone is using Tesseract. It was the only game in town 10 years ago, and it’s Ok on cleaned aligned data, but there are a few newer ones like EasyOCR [0] that can deal with much less organized text (albeit more slowly) [0] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

https://github.com/mindee/doctr/issues/1049 https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR#whats-coming-next Happy to see OCR is advancing lately, but I really need HWR. I am looking for something this polished and reliable for handwriting, does anyone have any pointers? I want to integrate it in a workflow with my eink tablet I take notes on. A few years ago, I tried various models, but they performed poorly (around 80% accuracy) on my handwriting, which I can read almost 90% of the time.

EasyOCR is a popular project if you are in an environment where you can use run Python and PyTorch (https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR). Other open source projects of note are PaddleOCR (https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR) and docTR (https://github.com/mindee/doctr).

The main one was https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR, mostly because, as promised, it was pretty easy to use, and uses pytorch (which I preferred in case I wanted to tweak it). It has been updated since, but at the time it was using CRNN, which is a solid model, especially for the time - it wasn't (academic) SOTA but not far behind that. I'm sure I could've coaxed better performance than I got out of it with some retraining and hyperparameter tuning.

I'm trying to detect things like speed limits, stop signs, retail building signs from a relatively low quality dashcam. The video is 1440p, but the optics aren't great. So far I've been using generic OCR models like [1] and [2], but the results aren't great. [1] https://github.com/faustomorales/keras-ocr [2] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

I've had good results with EasyOCR, much better than Tesseract. I agree with you, Tesseract has performed very poorly in my experience. https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/ https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/ It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.

Two alternatives, which are designed for OCR from photos: https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR/ https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/ It's worth trying them if Tesseract isn't giving you good accuracy.

In terms of setup and ease of use jaided OCR[1] is the best one I have used out there. I can't stress how many times I tried other alternative (tesseract, paddle OCR) out there and kept going back to use their OCR library. Mainly because it supports a large variety of languages out of the box while provide nice results. Disclaimer : I am not affiliated to jaidedAI, just a satisfied user. [1] https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

Does this require a Nvidia GPU? Some modules seem to import PyTorch and Cuda libs: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR/blob/master/easyocr/dete...