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by Nimsical 3287 days ago
This is cool!

Wondering what you're using for OCR?
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jffry 3287 days ago 

  For developers: Copyfish is published under the
  GPL open-source license. As OCR software, it uses
  the free OCR API from https://ocr.space/
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whitten 3287 days ago
So, to answer the question mentioned above, the document storing the text is sent to an off-site server (https://ocr.space/) which does the OCR and returns the results.
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tobltobs 3287 days ago
And what lib is using ocr.space for OCR?
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tangue 3287 days ago
I suspect they're using Tesseract as they've written a gui for it ( https://ocr.space/blog/p/free-ocr-windows.html ) but there's no way to find more.
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samfisher83 3287 days ago
https://github.com/A9T9/Free-OCR-Software

Based on this github they might be using the microsoft ocr library.

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PokemonNoGo 3287 days ago
I guess it auto defaults to English then? Running Tesseract on Scandinavian texts gives AAO instead of ÅÄÖ in my experience if you don't supply the correct language training set. That's quite the hen and the egg problem. Can't language identify without the text can't get the text without the right language identified.
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