What's the most performant/practical model/API for text extraction?

Question

AWS Textract might be more accurate, for instance, but is also not nearly as cost effective as spinning up an EC2 instance with Tesseract or easyOCR or PaddleOCR.Or is it more sensible on an accuracy-vs-cost standpoint to just run a transformers model like TrOCR after identifying bounding boxes with textual data with something like CRAFT or EAST?

sargstuff · Accepted Answer

Depends on different factors & critera.short example list:* fixed font character text on blank background; human hand writing set against busy city street background* converting non-text font image to text description. (collage of images forming illusion of text font)