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?