Robert Knight

Hello, thanks for the input. > I suggest adding performance benchmarks too to the continuous monitoring. With Tesseract we had a lot of issues around performance. I agree this would...

Thanks @TannerRogalsky, I appreciate the kind words!

Example of an image where this comes up ([source](https://twitter.com/lcasdev/status/1763546221518405989)):  Text line images from the slides currently look like this when input to the recognition model (see output of `ocrs...

[Reference implementation](https://gist.github.com/robertknight/bf9df9f582b14fac1f80d4681859ec02) using OpenCV's [image transform functions](https://docs.opencv.org/4.x/da/d54/group__imgproc__transform.html#gaf73673a7e8e18ec6963e3774e6a94b87). Usage: ``` python rectify.py slide.jpeg line.png '1105,316;1630,458;1622,498;1105,356' 517,64 ``` Note the coordinate order is clockwise from top left. This produces `line.png`:  From...

Re-reading this issue I think it should work more like a package update, where the tool might notify the user about model updates, but not download them unless specifically requested...

The goal is to make this possible. There are a lot of details still to be figured out.

> Eliminating the [hard-coded alphabet](https://github.com/robertknight/ocrs/blob/1dbea6212b316859a77d621796a51b49dcbbe05a/ocrs/src/recognition.rs#L18) from the recognition process. IIRC this was from an EasyOCR model that I used at one point. This was completed in https://github.com/robertknight/ocrs/pull/100.

> I was curious to know if there are any plans to introduce a Python version of ocrs Yes, bindings to support use in other languages is planned. Python and...

This issue was originally about two different topics, of which one was Python support. I suggest to create a new, specific issue for adding a Python API for this library...

> The main improvement needed for Ocrs to be more useful is higher text recognition accuracy / lower error rate, especially with longer lines. This was partly addressed in https://github.com/robertknight/ocrs/pull/32....