OCRmyPDF vs tesstrain

OCRmyPDF

OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched [Moved to: https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF] (by jbarlow83)

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Train Tesseract LSTM with make (by tesseract-ocr)

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OCRmyPDF		tesstrain
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2	Mentions	3
6,031	Stars	569
-	Growth	1.6%
9.3	Activity	7.6
about 2 years ago	Latest Commit	11 days ago
Python	Language	Python
Mozilla Public License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

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OCRmyPDF

Posts with mentions or reviews of OCRmyPDF. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-17.

[Free-Post Friday!] Recommendations for high volume document scanners
1 project | /r/DataHoarder | 19 May 2023
Show HN: PDF API – Generate, convert, and modify PDF documents
3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2022

tesstrain

Posts with mentions or reviews of tesstrain. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

OCR in-game text using Tesseract
1 project | /r/computervision | 29 Jun 2023

you can train tesseract models as described here, but you would need to create a dataset first: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesstrain
Help to improve pytesseract accuracy
1 project | /r/computervision | 6 Feb 2023

You could retrain tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesstrain
Requesting help training Tesseract
1 project | /r/computervision | 17 May 2021

Here is the official repository for training and finetuning Tesseract OCR. https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesstrain Readme is relatively simple to understand.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing OCRmyPDF and tesstrain you can also consider the following projects:

PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python [Moved to: https://github.com/py-pdf/PyPDF2]

chord_trainer - Using DSP guitar chord recognition to gamify chord practice

OCRmyPDF - OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched

tesserocr - A Python wrapper for the tesseract-ocr API

Nkocr - 🔎📝 This is a module to make specifics OCRs at food products and nutritional tables.

Automatic-License-Plate-Recognition - Automatic License Plate Recognition is implemented using Python, OpenCV and Tesseract to recognize Indian license plates and store the data in a CSV file.

google_drive_ocr - Perform OCR using Google's Drive API v3

Mayan EDMS - Free Open Source Document Management System (mirror, no pull request or issues)

OCR-PDF-Action - A GitHub action for turning scanned PDF's into searchable documents

EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages and all popular writing scripts including Latin, Chinese, Arabic, Devanagari, Cyrillic and etc.

pdftabextract - A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.