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Add the possibility to OCR in external websites to have more accuracy

Open All3xJ opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

Handwriting text OCF is not accurate at all, unluckily. Websites like google has very good accuracy. It would be cool to add an option to upload and do the OCR in external websites like google, and take the results and paste it in the PDF as invisible layer text, like ocrmypdf already does.

All3xJ avatar Feb 10 '22 18:02 All3xJ

Can you paste some links to where and how to do this online? I've never done that before. A demo and instructions would be appreciated.

ElectricRCAircraftGuy avatar Feb 12 '22 03:02 ElectricRCAircraftGuy

Can you paste some links to where and how to do this online? I've never done that before. A demo and instructions would be appreciated.

You can do it with Google Lens for example. There are APIs to make it automated

All3xJ avatar Feb 15 '22 10:02 All3xJ

I'm pretty sure that's a paid service. I'd have to somehow pass the cost on to the users.

ElectricRCAircraftGuy avatar Feb 15 '22 14:02 ElectricRCAircraftGuy

If implemented this should definitely not be a default option. Sending data to a 3rd party for ocr processing will raise privacy concerns.

knarf180 avatar Aug 14 '22 01:08 knarf180

@knarf180 , agreed. If am able to figure out how to do it, I will not make it default.

ElectricRCAircraftGuy avatar Aug 14 '22 04:08 ElectricRCAircraftGuy