Does paperless ocr (OCRmyPDF) support google coral?
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NichtFrog · 2023-11-01 21:49

I use a synology NAS whos CPU is already heavily overloaded with
selfhosted containers. Therefor I hope to unload the CPU by moving
machine learning tasks to a google coral.

Does anyone know if OCRmyPDF (in paperless ngx) supports computation
on a google coral?

The documentation (and google) give no hints.

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ElevenNotes · 2023-11-02 05:19

No. How about you get a NUC or similar device to run your containers
there and leave your NAS being a NAS?

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maqbeq · 2023-11-02 22:26

You can also offload that OCR task to a third party via an API and
download the result

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NichtFrog · 2023-11-04 21:20

Well for starters more PCs mean:

1. Higher Acquisition costs
2. More maintenance effort
3. More space required

If I already got a NAS, which is no different from PC with optimised
storage software, why must I get another Server if its not required?

Also thats was not the question, asking if paperless OCR supports
google coral is a totally valid question, considering that many run it
on a PI.

Or should everyone running it on a Pi also get another Server on top?

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NichtFrog · 2023-11-04 21:24

Thank you for the offloading tip, I did not know about this. Will have
a look.

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ElevenNotes · 2023-11-05 11:56

My first word was: No. To your coral question.