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Can I do OCR all-in-browser with this, without involving any backend? Not much familiar with OCR accuracy metrics, how much accurate is Tesseract?
It may miss a few features (some which I needed I had to code in).
Tesseract is the most ideal OCRA SDK for reading simple bw documents. If you aim to read “text In the wild” or scene text then Firebase offers a much better alternative. I had a lot of hope for Tesseract 4.0 which is supposed to be based on NNs but it’s so far performed just marginally better than 3.0
Tesseract is the most ideal OCRA SDK for reading simple bw documents. If you aim to read “text In the wild” or scene text then Firebase offers a much better alternative. I had a lot of hope for Tesseract 4.0 which is supposed to be based on NNs but it’s so far performed just marginally better than 3.0
This is a wrapper around a c++ codebase compiled with emscripten, so "pure" in the title doesn't really make sense.
I can see where you're coming from, but I've never used or heard anyone in the web world use "pure" to mean only "written entirely in Javascript without transpilation or other tools."
If it hits the parts of "pure JS" that most people care about:
- it's running entirely in Javascript.
- it has no native dependencies.
- it can run entirely clientside.
- it can be embedded in a normal web page.
then I think most people will be fine with using "pure" to describe it.
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I wouldn't even have that many quibbles with their phrasing even if they were compiling to WASM. Sure, at that point it wouldn't be running as pure javascript, but it would still hit 3 of the 4 points above.
any idea how the performance compares to native code from the original tesseract?
I use it in an Electron project and a documents that takes about 1.5 sec per page with the Tesseract CLI, I can get down to about 15 sec with Tesseract.js with parallelization.
Tesseract is the most ideal OCRA SDK for reading simple bw documents. If you aim to read “text In the wild” or scene text then Firebase offers a much better alternative. I had a lot of hope for Tesseract 4.0 which is supposed to be based on NNs but it’s so far performed just marginally better than 3.0
For “text In the wild” or scene text, the last time I checked, EasyOCR and PaddleOCR were both good.
Tesseract is the most ideal OCRA SDK for reading simple bw documents. If you aim to read “text In the wild” or scene text then Firebase offers a much better alternative. I had a lot of hope for Tesseract 4.0 which is supposed to be based on NNs but it’s so far performed just marginally better than 3.0