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kayhi | 5 years ago

What software is the current leader in OCR solutions?

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kccqzy|5 years ago

Look into various paid offerings on the cloud. Azure, GCP, AWS all have OCR-as-a-service they outperforms local software.

DarthGhandi|5 years ago

For anything long term and high volume it's far cheaper to use open source solutions and hire a manual review team in the developing world where English is a common second language. Unless you are comfortable with the high rate of errors there's still a need for review.

For small one-off tasks the cloud solutions do fine.

saradhi|5 years ago

Be it handwritten or printed text, by far, Microsoft's Azure OCR is best in recognizing text.

nl|5 years ago

Abbyy FineReader is generally better than any of the major cloud vendors in my testing.

See also this previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20470439

unityByFreedom|5 years ago

Also quite expensive since it is at the head of the pack IIRC. There is probably some value in making a competitor with new deep learning techniques provided you have a sufficiently diverse training set. It would take years to build tho.

kayhi|5 years ago

Thanks, I had looked that over but thought things may have changed in the last year.

gnicholas|5 years ago

For one-offs, you can use SensusAccess. I've found their quality to be pretty good.