OCR Technology and Tools

Discussions center on OCR engines like Tesseract and Mistral, their APIs, performance on tasks such as handwriting recognition, and AI-based alternatives or improvements.

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celer Jun 30, 2013 View on HN

Good OCR with a nice API would be very useful.

spapas82 Aug 12, 2024 View on HN

Thank you for your kind words! That's a good suggestion for the OCR I'll take a look at it.

serge2k Aug 13, 2016 View on HN

That's what OCR is for right.

lliiffee Jan 12, 2009 View on HN

"I can tell from your comment that you've never used OCR"

aloer Sep 22, 2019 View on HN

Could you tell us more about the use case here? What do you use the OCR for?

atsaloli Apr 15, 2025 View on HN

have you tried ai chatbots? they are pretty good at ocr nowadays

Metricon Jul 18, 2025 View on HN

You may want to have a look at Mistral OCR: https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-ocr

binarymax Feb 20, 2024 View on HN

Cool! Which OCR engine/model do you use?

bdbz Mar 8, 2022 View on HN

I was not aware that was a thing :( Maybe I can do something with OCR/ML

amelius Dec 12, 2016 View on HN

May I ask, what OCR engine does it use?