OCR apps that actually get it done?

Hi Mike. Thanks a lot for your feedback. That is also my impression so far. Paddle is usually more accurate and also faster. In some cases it even recognizes handwriting surprisingly well. I currently use the mobile versions of the Paddle models. The larger ones would probably be even more accurate. I have already been working on a layout analysis system for quite some time, but it is currently hidden behind a feature flag because it is still not good enough yet. For Paddle, the “best” addons do not matter. Tesseract is currently only used as a fallback, there is no combined post-processing or result merging between both OCR engines at the moment. For comparison: the small Tesseract models together are around 70 MB, while the Paddle models are around 80 MB. So the app would only become slightly larger if I removed Tesseract completely. Unlike Tesseract, a single Paddle model can cover multiple languages. So when adding more languages, the overall app size could actually become smaller in comparison.