[simianparrot]

I have a feeling feeding tesseract the image every 1 second would be significantly faster and take far less space and processing power? Haven't tested it yet but given how fast tesseract is on large images, it wouldn't surprise me.

[regularfry]

If all you want is OCR, possibly.

[coredog64]

If all you want is OCR of typewritten text.

Tesseract is awful for handwriting.