doctr VS stablediffusion

https://github.com/mindee/doctr/issues/1049

I am looking for something this polished and reliable for handwriting, does anyone have any pointers? I want to integrate it in a workflow with my eink tablet I take notes on. A few years ago, I tried various models, but they performed poorly (around 80% accuracy) on my handwriting, which I can read almost 90% of the time.

Yup! But I'm still exploring options. (any recommendations would be welcomed!) Here are some candidates I'm considering:

- https://github.com/mindee/doctr

- https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmocr

- https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR (honestly I don't know Mandarin so I'm a bit stuck)

- https://github.com/clovaai/donut - While it's primarily an "OCR-free document understanding transformer," I think it's worth experimenting with. Think I can sort this out by letting the LLM reason through it multiple times (although this will impact performance)

- yesterday got a suggestion to consider https://github.com/kakaobrain/pororo - I don't think development is still active but the results are pretty great on Korean text

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).

Last I checked I saw a grocery bill example using https://github.com/mindee/doctr and was fairly accurate. Bear in mind that was last year, hopefully it got even better or there are other libraries

For its OCR service, Cape uses the excellent Python docTR library. Some of the critical benefits of docTR are its ease of use, flexibility, and matching state-of-the-art performance. The OCR model consists of two steps: text detection and text recognition. Cape uses a pre-trained DB Resnet50 architecture for detection, and for recognition, it uses a MobileNetV3 Small architecture. To learn more about the level of OCR accuracy you can expect for your document, you can consult these benchmarks provided by docTR. As you will see, model performance is very competitive compared to other commercial services.

There's also DocTR which can do text detection and extraction out of the box.

It's command line driven but can display the detected text as an overlay of the document.

https://github.com/mindee/doctr

If you want to OCR a document image, modern versions of Tesseract can work well. If you last used it a few years ago, the recognition has improved since due to a new text recognition algorithm that uses modern (deep learning) techniques. Browser demo using a modern version: https://robertknight.github.io/tesseract-wasm/.

OCR processing typically consist of two major steps: detecting/locating words or lines of text on the page, and recognizing lines of text.

Tesseract's text recognition uses modern methods, but the text detection phase is still based on classical methods involving a lot of heuristics, and you may need to experiment with various configuration variables to get the best results. As a result it can fail to detect text if you present it with something other than a reasonably clean document image.

Doctr (https://github.com/mindee/doctr) is a new package that uses modern methods for both text detection and recognition. It is pretty new however and I expect will take more time and effort to mature.

With this tutorial's help, you can generate images with AI on your own computer with Stable Diffusion.

If your PC has a GPU(Nvidia RTX 30series+ recommended) of VRAM more than 4GB then try training your own Stable Diffusion model.

Command: "git" clone "https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion.git" "C:\Users\Naveed\Documents\A1111 Web UI Autoinstaller\stable-diffusion-webui\repositories\stable-diffusion-stability-ai"

Automatic11112 and sygil-webui aren't "distributions" of Stable Diffusion. This is a repository with some distributions of Stable Diffusion.

New stable diffusion finetune (Stable unCLIP 2.1, Hugging Face) at 768x768 resolution, based on SD2.1-768. This model allows for image variations and mixing operations as described in Hierarchical Text-Conditional Image Generation with CLIP Latents, and, thanks to its modularity, can be combined with other models such as KARLO. Comes in two variants: Stable unCLIP-L and Stable unCLIP-H, which are conditioned on CLIP ViT-L and ViT-H image embeddings, respectively. Instructions are available here.

This model will soon be open-sourced in StabilityAI’s GitHub.

Another question, if that's ok? Stable Diffusion 2.0 - https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion - if I wanted to use that, do I follow along their instructions and it will work on the M1 still, or you advise against it?

Stable Diffusion (2D Image Generation and Animation) https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion (Stable Diffusion V1) https://huggingface.co/CompVis/stable-diffusion (Stable Diffusion Checkpoints 1.1-1.4) https://huggingface.co/runwayml/stable-diffusion-v1-5 (Stable Diffusion Checkpoint 1.5) https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion (Stable Difusion V2) https://huggingface.co/stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-1/tree/main (Stable Diffusion Checkpoint 2.1) Stable Diffusion Automatic 1111 Webui and Extensions https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui (WebUI - Easier to use) PLEASE NOTE, MANY EXTENSIONS CAN BE INSTALLED FROM THE WEBUI BY CLICK "AVAILABLE" OR "INSTALL FROM URL" BUT YOU MAY STILL NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE MODEL CHECKPOINTS! https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet (Control Net Extension - Use various models to control your image generation, useful for animation and temporal consistency) https://huggingface.co/lllyasviel/ControlNet/tree/main/models (Control Net Checkpoints -Canny, Normal, OpenPose, Depth, ect.) https://github.com/thygate/stable-diffusion-webui-depthmap-script (Depth Map Extension - Generate high-resolution depthmaps and animated videos or export to 3d modeling programs) https://github.com/graemeniedermayer/stable-diffusion-webui-normalmap-script (Normal Map Extension - Generate high-resolution normal maps for use in 3d programs) https://github.com/d8ahazard/sd_dreambooth_extension (Dream Booth Extension - Train your own objects, people, or styles into Stable Diffusion) https://github.com/deforum-art/sd-webui-deforum (Deforum - Generate Weird 2D animations) https://github.com/deforum-art/sd-webui-text2video (Deforum Text2Video - Generate videos from texts prompts using ModelScope or VideoCrafter)

Stable Diffusion's code : https://github.com/Stability-AI/stablediffusion

But if you want to run a 2.x-based model, you'll need to download the corresponding YAML file (either the standard one – v2-inference-v.yaml – from Github or the one that is distributed with the model, if it requires a special one), rename it to have the same name as the model, and place it in the models folder alongside the model.