[opsecweather]

I tried to use this library to process nutrition labels for a fitness app. Sometimes took 40 seconds to process, which is unacceptable for a phone app. I remember seeing a video where a google product used a neural net and resolved the same info in 1 sec or so.

[simonw]

How long ago did you try it?

"Tesseract 4 adds a new neural net (LSTM) based OCR engine which is focused on line recognition, but also still supports the legacy Tesseract OCR engine of Tesseract 3 which works by recognizing character patterns."

[opsecweather]

I used the wasm implementation ( https://tesseract.projectnaptha.com/ ) and scanned 1 cereal box label.

[petespeed]

You can also compare total time between two options: 1. Do it on phone 2. Upload image to a powerful server and get results faster (more accuracy controls available too)

[bostonsre]

How much info are you talking about? A hundred or so words or thousands?