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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-12T03:48:12.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Hi Mike. Thanks a lot for your feedback.\n\nThat is also my impression so far. Paddle is usually more accurate and also faster. In some cases it even recognizes handwriting surprisingly well.\n\nI currently use the mobile versions of the Paddle models. The larger ones would probably be even more accurate.\n\nI 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.\n\nFor 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.\n\nFor 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.\n\nUnlike Tesseract, a single Paddle model can cover multiple languages. So when adding more languages, the overall app size could actually become smaller in comparison.",
  "title": "OCR apps that actually get it done?"
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