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by redindian 3146 days ago
I have a similar need. Is there any OSS projects which does this?

Snap a picture of a fixed layout form from smartphone & extract TYPED data

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If you're looking for full page OCR, check out ocrmypdf (uses Tesseract).

If you want to extract data out of documents/forms then you need to develop your own solution (I'm doing work in this area) or use expensive packages like ABBYY FlexiCapture.

Images taken from a smartphone (compared to scanned documents) is going to make the problem harder.