Comment Comment by simonw Yeah, I'm beginning to think detailed OCR-style extraction just isn't a good fit for these models.It's frustrating, because getting that junk out of horribly scanned PDFs is 90% of the need of data journalism!The best OCR API I've used is still AWS Textract - have you seen anything better?I ended up building a tiny CLI tool for Textract because I found the thing so hard to use: https://github.com/simonw/textract-cli parent simonw 2 years ago
It's frustrating, because getting that junk out of horribly scanned PDFs is 90% of the need of data journalism!
The best OCR API I've used is still AWS Textract - have you seen anything better?
I ended up building a tiny CLI tool for Textract because I found the thing so hard to use: https://github.com/simonw/textract-cli