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What’s my best option to put about 100 pages of photocopied typewriter pages in German online with #OCR? I think my very old CanoScan LiDE 25 scanner comes with some OCR software. Was there a significant improvement which is freely available, now? How cool is the workflow with pictures taken from a phone and tesseract? Any other free options?
@kensanata Tesseract has really good accuracy and is open. I have some slides on how to use it: https://nyu-dataservices.github.io/ExtractingOCR/#/13
@kensanata I have some other OCR workflow stuff here (based on DMPTool, but skip that first step and the rest is usable): https://osf.io/v82j8/wiki/home/
@kensanata This is the script-of-interest: https://osf.io/pck7f/
@vickysteeves Excellent, thank you!