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cfculhane / AnkiOCR

Anki Addon to create searchable text from images in notes, using Tesseract OCR
MIT License
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You might be interested in learning easyOCR exists #2

Closed thiswillbeyourgithub closed 3 years ago

thiswillbeyourgithub commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

I think it can be useful to make the installation process easier for less techy users. Never used it though.

edit : just saw on reddit that you knew this already. The second link still stands though

thiswillbeyourgithub commented 3 years ago

Also, in case you didn't know : https://github.com/madelesi/anki_ocr

cfculhane commented 3 years ago

Thanks, I did have a look at EasyOCR, the results were slightly better than Tesseract if anything, however its actually harder to package. It depends on torch and torchvision, both libraries with lots of different versions, dependencies that make its very difficult to package with an anki addon (we don't have access to pip).

Re : the other library, cool! I hadn't seen that, looks like they are taking a slightly different approach.