Tesseract is going to be slow, and there might not much you can do about
that.
You can do a couple of things, like set up a processes that run on AWS EC2
spot instances, so you can put a standing bid order on AWS instances and
only run your OCR when the price drops.
Or you can buy ABBYY , which is much faster.
b,chris.
b,chris.
On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Kyle Banerjee <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> > I’m not quite sure if I understand the question, but if all you want to
> do is pull the text out of an OCR’ed PDF file, then I have found both Tika
> and PDFtotext to be useful tools....
> >
> > On the other hand, if you need to do the OCR itself, then employing
> Tesseract is probably the way to go.
>
> For clarity, I have to do the OCR itself. I've been using CAM::PDF to
> extract existing text.
>
> Kyle
>
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