EasyOCR VS gimp-export-layers

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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

You do not need to abandon the ship, with 2 plugins (one is G'MIC, the other one is to export layers as image and it does way more as well), and a one line code in terminal, you will be able to do it with GIMP (although I think it's the perfect job for ImageMagick, but I don't master it).

Download this plugins > https://kamilburda.github.io/gimp-export-layers/ (it's to export each layer as an image), then restart GIMP.

use this plugin > https://kamilburda.github.io/gimp-export-layers/

Export all of them as separate JPEG images using a plugin Export Layers; and

From my quick search, fresco can export to psd (photoshop) file format, which keeps the layers. So you can export all frames at once into a single file. If you have photoshop, you can use that to batch export all layers to seperate images. If you don't have photoshop, you could try gimp, it can import psd files and with a plugin you can batch export layers.