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piterrrotoday at 7:04 PM1 replyview on HN

Most use cases dont need that kind of accuracy, just doesnt justify the 3-4usd range. I build for that exact case (tender documents, we’re processing north of 100k pages per day), it doesnt need to recognize scanned written text from 1930s, its usually pdf/docs/scanned printed pages. The accuracy is great, bounding boxes are must have for proper grounding for building answers by LLMs. Tesseract was too slow and not enough in some cases (for example tables or images which we also recognize and describe)


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poguetoday at 7:24 PM

If you're getting inaccurate results from OCR what's the purpose of even doing it? Inaccuracy of text of any kind seems like a completely obvious failure of the entire purpose of scanning text into a computer.

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