• SharpieThunderflare
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      1 month ago

      OCR and especially AI image processing takes a lot of computing power, much much more than filtering plain text.

      • qaz@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Last time I checked tesseract had pretty good performance, but I may be mistaken.

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          18 days ago

          You’re right. I’ve preferred it in mobile applications where specialized hardware is not guaranteed and battery use matters. Results are consistent.