Ask HN: What open source OCR models are available?
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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The ones i've tried are pretty terrible compared to google's OCR which is really good but closed sauce
I only know of Tesseract and PaddleOCR if you want to run them locally.