Show HN: Local-first fast CPU image to text for screenshots, PDFs, webpages

3 days ago (github.com)

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mrkn1

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KetoManx64  3 days ago

What's the performance like compared to tesseract? I don't see tesseract mentioned anywhere in the readme, which is surprising considering that's the number one tool most go to for Image > text OCR.

  • mrkn1  3 days ago

    No rigorous eval, and I love Tesseract. Here's the example that motivated me to build textsnap (which is in the github's README), parsed with Tesseract:

    https://imgur.com/a/i2eQra8

    • KetoManx64  2 days ago

      Very noticable difference and the exact issue I run repeatedly with tesseract! Definitely going to try dropping textsnap into my scripts now. Thanks!!

lavaman131  2 days ago

This is awesome! Been needing something like this for some research paper diagrams I've been indexing.

vivzkestrel  3 days ago

- how well do you think this ll work with code? i mean take code screenshots and convert it into actual code for vscode

  • mrkn1  3 days ago

    Just ran

      textsnap "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LBNDfxjEYlA/maxresdefault.jpg"

    and got this

      $('.count').each(function () {
  $('this').prop('Counter', 0).animate({
    Counter: $('this').text()
  }, {
      duration: 4000,
      easing: 'swing',
      step: 'function (now) {
          $('this").text(Math.ceil(now));
      }
    }); 
  });

monosma  3 days ago

What was the reason for adopting PaddleOCR? Can other OCR models be used as well?

  • mrkn1  3 days ago

    No reason other than their Q4 model working reasonably well and fast on my CPU laptop. Should work with any ONNX VLM model