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For my #blind friends, I'm curious about your experiences with reading #PDFs through #OCR software. Specifically, beyond the use of Envision AI, which tools have you found to be the most accurate and reliable for this purpose? I'm always on the lookout for better alternatives. Feedback on both desktop and mobile platforms would be greatly appreciated, particularly in terms of accuracy of text recognition. accuracy (and obviously usability, but accuracy) are all I care about.
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@meatbag I'm on linux and the best I have found working for me is #ocrmypdf github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
It uses #tesseract under the hood and for static text it's okay. For tables and other material that is difficult to parse it's not usefull.
When PDF has a text then the tools I am using for reading these include #firefox and #evince

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