dotfiles VS tesseract-ocr

If you want to learn more visit the complete tesseract documentation.

You can use tesseract

https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/

AI copilots: Copilots powered by various LLMs like Pieces Copilot can leverage computer vision technologies for inputs beyond text and code. For example, optical character recognition software at Pieces uses Tesseract as its main OCR code engine, extended with bicubic upsampling. Pieces then uses edge-ML models to auto-correct any potential defects in the resulting code/text, which users can input as prompts to the AI copilot. Pieces Copilot in its current iteration also comes with a unique tool called the Workstream Pattern Engine which gathers real-time context from any application through computer vision, enabling Pieces to understand everything on your screen and pass it through to the LLM so you can talk to the AI about it.

i used open source solutions to built it, like libreoffice, ghostscript, google's tesseract and a bunch of other tools, Google's Tesseract: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

We are going to be using an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) engine called Tesseract for the image-to-text recognition part. It is free software, released under the Apache License. Install the engine for your desired OS from their official website. I'm using Windows for this. Add the installation path to your environment variables.

You will also need to install the Tesseract OCR engine, which can be downloaded and installed from the following link: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

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

It uses teseract for the OCR https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract

Last update was pretty recent, and the git mentions tesseract 5 as a dep. so it's likely moved on a bit from when you last tried it:

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases

I suppose it depends on your use-case. For personal tasks like this it should be more than sufficient, and won't need user details/cc or whatever to use it.

Tesseract is an open-source OCR engine developed by Google. It is highly accurate and supports multiple languages. This library will do all the heavy lifting for us. We'll use it in this tutorial to quickly read the text in some images.