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| From | vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.advocacy |
| Subject | Re: Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR. |
| Date | 2025-08-27 04:20 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <mh7fc3FsipdU4@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <pan$a6c73$f3d41061$d19e7b60$2f573631@linux.rocks> |
On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:01:46 +0000, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote in <pan$a6c73$f3d41061$d19e7b60$2f573631@linux.rocks>: > Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is perhaps a critical necessity in > today's digital world. > > Google has contributed an OCR software called Tesseract to to the FOSS > community. > > I am sorry to have to say that, in my experience, Tesseract is junk. You know tesseract has been in development since 1985, right? You know it started at Hewlitt Packard, right? You know that it has _two_ engines, which can be combined for better results, right? I didn't think so. (FTR: I've had good success with tesseract.) -- -v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G OS: Linux 6.16.3 D: Mint 22.1 DE: Xfce 4.18 NVIDIA: 580.76.05 Mem: 258G "A cat is always on the wrong side of a door."
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Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR. Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2025-08-26 19:01 +0000
Re: Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR. vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2025-08-27 04:20 +0000
Re: Tesseract Is Junk. FOSS Has No OCR. Farley Flud <fflud@gnu.rocks> - 2025-08-27 12:29 +0000
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