Package for OCR

General Usage
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Dears,

Is there any up-to-date package for OCR.

It seems Tesseract is not maintained and out of date.

Thanks

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I’ve had luck with tesseract_jll: SearchablePDFs.jl/src/SearchablePDFs.jl at 99980addb1b2719dbcee8f0859ece931907ccd59 · ericphanson/SearchablePDFs.jl · GitHub

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I am also looking for a good OCR option for Julia. Tesseract still seems useful, but I did prefer something that is actively maintained, especially for extracting text from scanned images and documents.

Has anyone tried any newer OCR packages or wrappers that work reliably with Julia?

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I googled a bit and OCReract.jl might be better. It’s probably not too hard to update Tesseract_jll.jl to latest version, the dependency of Tesseract.jl, now I got:

[efd95c89] + Tesseract_jll v5.1.0+0

Welcome to the community. I’ve not used OCR myself or Tesseract, and while that package was only updated 2 years ago, that might be no problem since it uses Tesseract you have installed, so I’m guessing works for latest from this year.

I.e. not this once that people still download recently (used from the other package);

Both OCReract.jl and pytesseract · PyPI use the same method, i.e. you must install GitHub - tesseract-ocr/tesseract: Tesseract Open Source OCR Engine (main repository) · GitHub first, so even if the Python wrapper might seem not maintained recently it might not matter.

[PyTesseractDecoder.jl is actually not related to OCR, wraps a Python library Tesseract Decoder, but such a packages could also be done for pytesseract in a similar way if needed, or just not wrap and use PythonCall.jl on it.]