ocrmac VS Camelot

Nice post, OP! I was super impressed with the Apple's vision framework. I used it on a personal project involving the OCRing of tens of thousands of spreadsheet screenshots and ingesting them into a postgres database.

I used a combination of RHetTbull's vision.py (for the actual implementation) [1] + ocrmac (for experimentation) [2] and was pleasantly surprised by the performance on my i7 6700k hackintosh.

I wouldn't call myself a programmer but I can generally troubleshoot anything if given enough time, but it did cost time.

[1]: https://gist.github.com/RhetTbull/1c34fc07c95733642cffcd1ac5...

[2]: https://github.com/straussmaximilian/ocrmac

I had good repeated success extracting tables from PDFs using Camelot (Python, https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot)

I found this today and it is working well https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot

here is the corresponding bug report in git: https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/issues/339

Try https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot. It seems like this should work on your case.

Yeah, I’m pretty sure the Remarkable OCR is not up to these kinds of tasks unfortunately. If you know some coding you could write something that’d likely work well in Python using for ex. this for receiving the mail attachment and this for converting the PDF to CSV. This is in case you’d write your data as a table on the Remarkable, which I guess is preferable to writing something like (0.5, 8.4, -0.3). If you’d rather do it that way, there are other more suitable OCR tools like this one. The checkbox use-case in the comment above would also be possible by modifying this approach. DM if you’d like to discuss further work.

Looks like it's a bit in-progress: https://github.com/camelot-dev/camelot/pull/209

"Update docs" isn't checked, and that's what I was going on.