CompreFace VS tesseract-ocr

# https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace/blob/master/docs/Face-services-and-plugins.md)

I looked at Double Take (UI that lets you do the training of your face recondition easily) and found CompreFace as one of models they support. It looks like what I need but there is a catch... no OpenVino (intel CPUs AI accelerator) support. I really like my low power NVR setup and would like keep it that way. Running AI on CPU without acceleration is both power inefficient and much slower. I have a spare low end GPU but if dump it in the system the current AI acceleration brakes... (I know I can prob fix it but that is a rabbit hole I would prefer to avoid).

This has good UI and also good recognition: https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace

wget -q -O tmp.zip 'https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace/releases/download/v1.1.0/CompreFace_1.1.0.zip' && unzip tmp.zip && rm tmp.zip

https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace/ Is already a good locally-run API for face detection and facial recognition. Thankyou for your suggestion.

If you are looking for open source stuff and are able to self-host it, maybe have a look at CompreFace.

As almost always, on GitHub https://github.com/exadel-inc/CompreFace

Looking into this I found Compreface (https://exadel.com/solutions/compreface/) an open source face recognition software. There are alread some controb scripts, like contrib/photils.lua, who take some images, run them through a tool, then tag them with data coming from the tool. Converting this to use Compreface looks likea promising avenue.

You will also need to install the Tesseract OCR engine, which can be downloaded and installed from the following link: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

PyTesseract Module [ Github ] EasyOCR Module [ Github ] PaddlePaddle OCR [ Github ]

It uses teseract for the OCR https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Last update was pretty recent, and the git mentions tesseract 5 as a dep. so it's likely moved on a bit from when you last tried it:

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases

I suppose it depends on your use-case. For personal tasks like this it should be more than sufficient, and won't need user details/cc or whatever to use it.

Tesseract is an open-source OCR engine developed by Google. It is highly accurate and supports multiple languages. This library will do all the heavy lifting for us. We'll use it in this tutorial to quickly read the text in some images.

> Does android even have native OCR?

Tesseract? https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Install Google Tesseract OCR (additional info how to install the engine on Linux, Mac OSX and Windows). You must be able to invoke the tesseract command as tesseract. If this isn’t the case, for example because tesseract isn’t in your PATH, you will have to change the “tesseract_cmd” variable pytesseract.pytesseract.tesseract_cmd. Under Debian/Ubuntu you can use the package tesseract-ocr. For Mac OS users. please install homebrew package tesseract.

OCR detection will be done with Tesseract.

I’ve used Tesseract for this. It seems to work well with tabular data. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

If you go this route, then using an app that can convert your handwritten notes to a digital format (indexed text), will give you a good balance between cognitive processing and efficient data storage/management; you can likely find many such apps on the App Store or Google Play. If you're interested in something more hands-on, on Arch you can probably experiment with Tesseract OCR in an interesting way (Example).