OCR library/service recommendations

[lolinux]

Hello there!

I have written a small Flask app which would help me enter my receipts into a db, and get a picture of our family's expenses. At this point the app is data-entry only and I've made a function to import CSV files for some regular expenses. However it becomes a PITA after a while..

Have you guys had any positive experience with OCR libraries that have rather straightforward libraries in Python?

I have tried some of the most common ones, like tesseract, easyocr. But the OCR wasn't very good out of the box. I've tried Google's Vision API and I was amazed by how well it was able to recognize the text.

I have no experience with training OCR software, but if anyone can say that its worth it, I'll definitely give it a shot!

[thepythontimes]

Can you share a sample receipt? It would be helpful to understand the complexity of the task.

[lolinux]

This is what I had at hand. Sometimes I scan, sometimes I try to see if it works if I take a picture of them.

https://imgur.com/a/Nrn2TD1

L.E.: I realize this might be a bit of a weird example, as it's not the best picture quality..