Parsing printed text data is easy, but parsing data from PDFs, scans, and images is hard because they can come in various formats and quality. There may also be handwriting involved. To help solve this challenge, we need to rely on computer vision and optical character recognition (OCR). Let's explore the most popular OCR text extraction tools and compare them.
Comparing OCR data extraction tools - EasyOCR, Tesseract-OCR, and AWS Textract
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