• SharpieThunderflare
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    2 months ago

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

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      2 months ago

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

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        2 months ago

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