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I would like to mention I have used a similar service by Microsoft.

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/computer-...

Would be interesting to for example submit the same blurry image with text to both services and see which one has the best algorithm to extract text.

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I just did a test. I took picture of my monitor with this thread open. then sent it to google and microsofts OCR API.

Microsofts won and got far more things right. here is the output of the ocr scans: http://pastebin.com/YuRinwN2

here is the sample I submitted: https://i.imgsafe.org/c3147b06a3.jpg