KetoManx64 18 hours ago

What's the performance like compared to tesseract? I don't see tesseract mentioned anywhere in the readme, which is surprising considering that's the number one tool most go to for Image > text OCR.

  • mrkn1 18 hours ago

    No rigorous eval, and I love Tesseract. Here's the example that motivated me to build textsnap (which is in the github's README), parsed with Tesseract:

    https://imgur.com/a/i2eQra8

    • KetoManx64 14 hours ago

      Very noticable difference and the exact issue I run repeatedly with tesseract! Definitely going to try dropping textsnap into my scripts now. Thanks!!

lavaman131 11 hours ago

This is awesome! Been needing something like this for some research paper diagrams I've been indexing.

abstract257 1 day ago

Curious how it does on multi-page scanned PDFs vs. single screenshots? The ORT vision/decoder split is the part that usually makes or breaks CPU VLM OCR...

  • krunck 1 day ago

    I had to extract the image from a PDF for it to work. Then run it on each page image extracted.

vivzkestrel 1 day ago

- how well do you think this ll work with code? i mean take code screenshots and convert it into actual code for vscode

  • mrkn1 1 day ago

    Just ran

      textsnap "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LBNDfxjEYlA/maxresdefault.jpg"

    and got this

      $('.count').each(function () {
  $('this').prop('Counter', 0).animate({
    Counter: $('this').text()
  }, {
      duration: 4000,
      easing: 'swing',
      step: 'function (now) {
          $('this").text(Math.ceil(now));
      }
    }); 
  });
monosma 1 day ago

What was the reason for adopting PaddleOCR? Can other OCR models be used as well?

  • mrkn1 1 day ago

    No reason other than their Q4 model working reasonably well and fast on my CPU laptop. Should work with any ONNX VLM model

kouru225 1 day ago

Roman alphabet only or does this work with other alphabets?

  • mrkn1 1 day ago

    109 languages, including other alphabets.

garrett2558 1 day ago

Very cool, I'm building my own local-first product as well

  • mrkn1 1 day ago

    thank you! what is it about?

BIGFOOT_EXISTS 1 day ago

Now this is legit cool, keep up the great work.

  • mrkn1 1 day ago

    thank you!