dannguyen

Using Python 3 + Google Cloud Vision API's OCR to extract text from photos and scanned documents

Just a quickie test in Python 3 (using Requests) to see if Google Cloud Vision can be used to effectively OCR a scanned data table and preserve its structure, in the way that products such as ABBYY FineReader can OCR an image and provide Excel-ready output.

The short answer: No. While Cloud Vision provides bounding polygon coordinates in its output, it doesn't provide it at the word or region level, which would be needed to then calculate the data delimiters.

On the other hand, the OCR quality is pretty good, if you just need to identify text anywhere in an image, without regards to its physical coordinates. I've included two examples:

####### 1. A low-resolution photo of road signs

roddds

To everyone who got here through Twitter or Facebook or Hacker News or whatever: THIS IS NOT ME.

The "Me" in this transcript is @raddevon, who shared his story first on reddit.

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List of incompetent jackasses who can't check a source if their lives depended on it:

• geek.com
• nasdaq.com
• craveonline.com

phoenixenero

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carols10cents

Thanks to @seejee for making this for me!!!

C# to Rust Cheat Sheet

The goal of this is to have an easily-scannable reference for the most common syntax idioms in C# and Rust so that programmers most comfortable with C# can quickly get through the syntax differences and feel like they could read and write basic Rust programs.

What do you think? Does this meet its goal? If not, why not?

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