EasyOCR VS BoofCV

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I just uploaded my C++ implementation of EasyOCR, a well known ocr library for python. Also dusted some cobwebbs from some audio related projects as well, feel free to leave feedback or contribute! I only implemented the most salient parts, so certainly could use some community help! Cheers!

EasyOCR is a popular project if you are in an environment where you can use run Python and PyTorch (https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR). Other open source projects of note are PaddleOCR (https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR) and docTR (https://github.com/mindee/doctr).

The main one was https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR, mostly because, as promised, it was pretty easy to use, and uses pytorch (which I preferred in case I wanted to tweak it). It has been updated since, but at the time it was using CRNN, which is a solid model, especially for the time - it wasn't (academic) SOTA but not far behind that. I'm sure I could've coaxed better performance than I got out of it with some retraining and hyperparameter tuning.

Anyways, you can give a shot to EasyOCR, pretty solid and flexible

The easyocr library: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

Not used it on a Pi but maybe a Docker version (if there is one) would run? Compose file here

BoofCV https://github.com/lessthanoptimal/BoofCV

Is there any fast way to get pixel values and pixel coordinate? I had to jump through a lot of hoops to get convert BufferedImages into a format that's useful for image processing it to be a reasonable speed in BoofCV. getRGB() is glacial. At one point I was trying to convince the JDK team to make private data structures public again. Right now it's inconsistent what you have access too.

Apologizes if this post runs afoul of the rules. This is a product we are making that started as an open source project (here).

I will take the opportunity to call out one of my favourite libraries, BoofCV (http://boofcv.org)

It comes with a wonderful demonstration tool that allows you to apply the various included algorithms to images and tweak the parameters in real-time – including the Hough transform. A great tool for helping to understand how these kinds of algorithms work!

Speaking of using the vector api, I see there's a class in boofcv that converts rgb to hsv. I've previously written a simd accelerated version of rgb to hsv using the java vector api. For anybody looking to do a bit of code janitor work, converting the one-off library into something that could be contributed to /u/lessthanoptimal's project might be a worthwhile contribution.

For instance I looked at BoofCV and all I found was : https://github.com/lessthanoptimal/BoofCV/issues/265 " the question now seems to be can you compile the library as native. The answer is probably but someone needs to try it."

It's an all-Java computer vision library, see https://boofcv.org/ and https://github.com/lessthanoptimal/BoofCV

project website: https://boofcv.org

There really is a community for everything on Reddit... Anyways, so I've updated the tutorial on QR Codes in BoofCV. If you're not familiar with it, BoofCV is a computer vision library that also includes a high quality QR Code scanner. Plenty of benchmarks and examples can be found on the website to back that up. Here's a link to the tutorial page and please let me know if it all makes sense. The tutorial focuses on applications which are either command line or have a GUI.