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FOSS Advent Calendar - Door 11: Read Any Text with EasyOCR

Meet EasyOCR, a lightweight open source optical character recognition (OCR) engine that makes extracting text from images and documents almost effortless. Supporting over 80 languages, including those with complex scripts and mixed language text, it's designed to be powerful, accurate, and incredibly straightforward to use.

Built on PyTorch and integrating deep learning models, EasyOCR delivers high recognition accuracy even on challenging images, low resolution, skewed text, or complex backgrounds. What sets it apart is its simplicity: with just a few lines of code, you can have a fully functional OCR pipeline running locally, without needing an internet connection or external APIs. Your data remains completely private.

Whether you're digitizing printed material, extracting text from screenshots (for example, lyrics from L’âme Immortelle, an Austrian dark wave band), automating document workflows, or analyzing visual data, EasyOCR gets the job done quickly and reliably.

Pro tip: Use it to create searchable PDFs, translate foreign text in images, or even capture and digitize handwritten notes with the right training data.

Link: https://github.com/JaidedAI/EasyOCR

What text would you like to extract from images? Scanned books, street signs, or maybe your old family documents?

#FOSS #OpenSource #OCR #EasyOCR #TextRecognition #AI #DeepLearning #Python #ComputerVision #DocumentDigitization #DataExtraction #Privacy #LocalAI #Multilingual #OpenTools #Fediverse #TechNerds #AdventCalendar #adventkalender #adventskalender #TextExtraktion #KI #PyTorch #DevCommunity #Automation #OfflineAI #PythonProgramming

Ứng dụng OCR giá rẻ, thanh toán một lần! 🚀

✅ Không giới hạn OCR
✅ Hỗ trợ 8 định dạng file
✅ Không giới hạn dung lượng & số trang PDF
✅ 127 ngôn ngữ
✅ Xử lý hàng loạt
✅ An toàn & bảo mật

Giảm 50% với mã: LAUNCH50

#OCR #ungdung #vanban #congnghe #OCR #Application #TextRecognition #Technology #vietnamese

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/1pd837p/made_an_ocr_app_thats_cheap_onetime_payment_and/

🤖: "Why not just treat text as an image?" - A thought-provoking idea, if only this groundbreaking revelation hadn't already been around since the dawn of #OCR. 📚 Because clearly, the future of #AI hinges on converting text into... more text, but slower. 🐢🚀
https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-tokens-as-image-tokens/ #Innovation #TextRecognition #FutureTech #HackerNews #ngated

ScribeOCR – Web interface for recognizing text, OCR, & creating digitized docs

https://github.com/scribeocr/scribeocr

#HackerNews #ScribeOCR #OCR #textrecognition #digitization #webinterface #open-source

Coming up on October 3-4, 2025 at Central European University in Vienna: OCR/HTR Workshop for Under-resourced and Under-represented Languages in Digital Humanities, funded by the Cluster of Excellence EurAsian Transformations and by CLARIAH-AT! (Main organizer: yours truly) #digitalhumanities #multilingualdh #textrecognition #ocr #htr

Poster with the title of the workshop, the logos of the host and the two funders who sponsor the workshop, as well as an image with a magnifying glass enlarging a text.

HippoCam just got a major upgrade!
Text recognition, private memories, smart search, sharper captures — it’s all in v25.8.2 🧠📸

Full update details here:
https://rogy.app/whats-new-in-hippocam-v25-8-2

#iOS #IndieDev #AppUpdate #TextRecognition #PrivacyFirst #HippoCam #RememberApp

#Veranstaltungshinweis
Di 17.06.25
The Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences will host an HTR Winter School, focusing on the automated recognition of handwritten texts in medieval and early modern sources.

https://www.oeaw.ac.at/imafo/veranstaltungen/detail/htr-of-historical-sources

#textrecognition #transkribus #ocr #Veranstaltungshinweis

Wow, who knew that plain old text recognition could be such an ✨adventure✨? Apparently, adding a sprinkle of "accuracy" to your #OCR code is groundbreaking 🤯. But hey, the world couldn't possibly survive without yet another way to read printed text, right? 📚🔍
https://pieces.app/blog/how-we-made-our-optical-character-recognition-ocr-code-more-accurate #textrecognition #adventure #technology #innovation #accuracy #printedtext #HackerNews #ngated

Got me a #kindle #scribe for Christmas. Love to write with a real pen on something that resembles real paper, but with results I can digitally process, search etc.

Problem: amazon exports only a PDF with the handwriting and text without any structure. Disappointing.

LLMs for the rescue! So far had good success and some unexpected fails getting more out of the PDF than what amazon does. Here's my posts on medium about it.

https://medium.com/@karlheinz.agsteiner/getting-the-most-out-of-your-kindle-scribe-with-ai-077f3b6b552d

#llm #textrecognition #chatgpt #mistral #claude

It's #Wednesday, and I'm continuing my work on transcribing the #EthicaComplementoria from 1674 using #Transkribus. My "job" ran overnight, and the training results were impressive! So, I did a final check on the layout recognition of the remaining pages and ran a #TextRecognition job on the entire Ethica print. The book contains both the Ethica Complementoria and the Tranchierbuch. The latter has many illustrations and tables, so I've decided to run it separately.

RT @ghacks@twitter.com

Mozilla plans to add Text Recognition support to Firefox. Currently in testing in Firefox Nightly for Mac. #firefox #textrecognition #mozilla

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/08/19/mozilla-plans-to-add-text-recognition-support-to-firefox/

#TextRecognition

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