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Ask HN: What open source OCR models are available?

11 points by zerojames ↗ HN
I have tried Tesseract for OCR but I wondered if there are any more accurate tools available. I have been experimenting with some Visual Question Answering (VQA) models such as BLIPv2 but they generally don't return full OCR results, rather a limited set of the words in an image.

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itg
I only know of Tesseract and PaddleOCR if you want to run them locally.
IndigoIncognito
The ones i've tried are pretty terrible compared to google's OCR which is really good but closed sauce