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by kccqzy 2103 days ago
Look into various paid offerings on the cloud. Azure, GCP, AWS all have OCR-as-a-service they outperforms local software.
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For anything long term and high volume it's far cheaper to use open source solutions and hire a manual review team in the developing world where English is a common second language. Unless you are comfortable with the high rate of errors there's still a need for review.

For small one-off tasks the cloud solutions do fine.