[bsharper]

I've found EasyOCR to work much better at pulling text out of irregular or unknown images. Requires more resources than tesseract but gets much better results in my projects.

[aidenn0]

It seems to be not significantly better than tesseract for non-mixed images though, and it takes about 5 orders of magnitude longer to process a page on my machine; I can literally read a book 100 times faster than EasyOCR can process a book on my Ryzen 7 2700.

[aidenn0]

To give an idea, I started EasyOCR on a single page of a book at ~200dpi before I posted the above comment. It is still running over 3 hours later.