dangledangle

I would love for Silero to support Arabic.

As a team that builds standalone smart glasses we often find ourselves paying outrageous license fees to companies for having Arabic and Hebrew TTS engines on our device. Google consistently refuses to add Arabic to their Google TTS engine and hence we'll have to rely on paying out of our pocket for this.

Vision's rectangle detection or document scanner has worked well for us but in comparison to what Google's MLKit OCR offers it pales in comparison. MLKit OCR also does language detection + more languages out of the box.

EasyOCR is definitely interesting and something that's worked well for us at a prototyping level.

Tesseract is the most ideal OCRA SDK for reading simple bw documents. If you aim to read “text In the wild” or scene text then Firebase offers a much better alternative. I had a lot of hope for Tesseract 4.0 which is supposed to be based on NNs but it’s so far performed just marginally better than 3.0

I'm curious to know how this is different from Microsoft's CustomVision and other such tools. In fact, they've been around for much longer with the exact same product.

Thanks.