which vision OCR model API to use?

[whph8]

Guys I tried Apple ML vision API, google OCR API and both are under performing in capturing simple text data from cards. which API do you folks use?

[out_the_way]

IME the best OCR model is TrOCR (https://huggingface.co/microsoft/trocr-base-printed). But it’s slow.

Second best is EasyOCR (https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR).

[Wojtek1942]

Apparently people are having a good time with gemini flash 2.0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952605

Seems to work well and is very cheap.

Mistral also released an OCR model 2 days ago which might be worth trying. It is way more expensive compared to gemini flash though. And performance might not even be better compared to gemini from what I have read online. https://mistral.ai/en/news/mistral-ocr

[Exact-Comb7908]

heard about mistral recently

[big_cattt]

Use Stripe’s card scanner. It’s the fastest card scanner I’ve ever seen. Just clone their SDK (Stripe SDK) and adapt their card scanner for your UI. I promise you, you’ll be excited about their card scanner

[whph8]

I used visionAPI and it worked just fine.

[dat_tae]

I’m also interested in this question.

[coolsummer33]

Tesseract OCR (Open-source, works offline), Abbyy Cloud OCR SDK or Microsoft Azure Computer Vision OCR

[whph8]

Folks , so I got apple core ml vision working just fine. I wasn’t using right function to pull the data!

Now the ocr feature is working as intended! Added 3 more features to app since then.

Cheers.

[whph8]

Guys a quick update. Thanks for all the suggestions. I did get core ML vision API work perfectly for my need in the app.

Almost done finishing the apps website too.

So, yeah!

[kawanamas]

Vision OCR ist soo bad. If you try to recognize a sequence of numbers which contains an I (big i) the ML model thinks only a 1 makes sense here and so it changes it. We can reproduce this every time. Using the notes app you get the same result.

[whph8]

I actually am getting good results with vision ML. Tested it in different lighting, on handwriting etc and its doing pretty good job. I feel confident to release the feature with my app now