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I'm interested in good OCR, preferably local, but I'm close to giving up and using Google Cloud Vision API --- It works well for text that's not prefectly aligned and laid out - unlike e.g. Tesseract or any other local OCR I've used.

As far as I can tell, clarifai.com doesn't have OCR, and neither does anyone else except MS and G.

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Hey, I made this [1]. Based on a neural net trained with generated character sets with intentional distortions and/or several font variations.

I would not recommend it for use in production, but maybe you're interested in looking at the code and customizing it to your liking. Could perhaps be combined with OpenCV.

[1] https://github.com/mateogianolio/ocr

Thanks!

Have you had a look at the ABBYY offerings? They work very well with auto-skew detection + correction. But of course, it's a very pricey solution and wouldn't recommend it if you don't have the budget for that sort of thing.

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