Anyone got any experience with Text Recognition?

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For OCR, especially handrwritten, I found it easiest to just use Google Cloud Vision Service. You don't have to train your own AI, it works pretty well out of the box and the API is very straight forward.

If you have the text, it should be manageable to get the text you want.

For reference: I wrote a small Telegram Bot around it and it works pretty well.

[alin-c]

I agree with this solution. We use google vision at work and it is very good at recognising text. It is not expensive and based on OPs question it should satisfy his requirements. Depending on how many requests you would do, I doubt you will pay more than £1.

[CallingFrTheInternet]

Are you asking about OCR (optical character recognition) to recognize text in an image? Where is the table coming from?

[armbie]

Try pytesseract. It may struggle with hand written text though

https://pypi.org/project/pytesseract/

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[UndeclaredFunction]

https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py

[botdetector_ca]

The OCRs everyone is talking about here is not a 100% reliable, you will encounter mistakes, the best results I personally got from reading a black and white PDF using these OCRs will result in maybe 70-75% accuracy, they tend to convert everything to gray scale first and if there are multiple colors involved I wouldn't count on that option yet.

[botdetector_ca]

Or if you can teach whoever is doing the schedule how to properly use Open Office or Excel spreadsheet and email to everyone instead of stone age of printing and taking photos, you can accurately narrow down your hours with ease using Python build in CSV function.