pytracking VS EasyOCR

A third way to do it, is using some form of algorithm which allows you to select a video target to track. Something like this: https://github.com/visionml/pytracking. The algorithm can probably output the XY coordinates of the object its tracking, which is sent to the same mechanism described above.

Github: https://github.com/visionml/pytracking

Looking at this diagram, it looks kinda like a Kalman Filter schematic

PyTesseract Module [ Github ] EasyOCR Module [ Github ] PaddlePaddle OCR [ Github ]

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