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As a tangent, the author says Tesseract based OCR didn’t work very well. Sadly this matches my experience too.

What products (open source or closed) have higher accuracy for vanilla English documents?

Author here! I was legitimately considering building an iPhone OCR farm for this based on this article about running OCR on memes [1]. Haven't tried it in practice, but the article claims it has better performance than tesseract.

[1]: https://findthatmeme.com/blog/2023/01/08/image-stacks-and-ip...

Google drive has pretty good OCR

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