[HN Gopher] Easy-to-Use Apple Vision wrapper for text extraction...
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Easy-to-Use Apple Vision wrapper for text extraction and clustering
Author : brulenaudet
Score : 27 points
Date : 2024-01-27 11:58 UTC (1 days ago)
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| brulenaudet wrote:
| Apple-ocr is a utility for Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
| that facilitates the extraction of text from images. This Python-
| based tool is designed to help developers, researchers, and
| enthusiasts in the field of text extraction and clustering. It
| leverages a combination of various technologies to achieve this,
| including the Vision framework provided by Apple.
| l33t7332273 wrote:
| It uses python so I'm a bit concerned about speed. Are there any
| benchmarks for how fast this is if I want to use it for a real
| time application?
| thih9 wrote:
| This is a python wrapper around apple's vision framework. If
| you're concerned about speed and/or don't want python, then
| interacting directly with the vision framework is an option.
| fotta wrote:
| Apple Vision SDK:
| https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision
| theolivenbaum wrote:
| Nice! We maintain one for C# too:
| https://www.nuget.org/packages/LiveTextSharp
| bomewish wrote:
| I've been using textra for a wrapper on the Apple vision sdk
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| https://github.com/freedmand/textra
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| But this project calls torch and a bunch of other ML libs. So
| it's not using Apple vision?
| sigmoid10 wrote:
| It's only using those other libs to do some simplistic
| statistical analysis of Apple vision's outputs. Further down
| you can see it just calls VNImageRequestHandler which is
| basically a call from Python to Apple Vision via ObjC in order
| to get any actual recognitions.
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