Category: OCR Project
A few months ago I tried using AWS Rekognition to detect text in images. The results were okay for casual use cases but overall the quality was pretty poor (primarily because Rekognition isn’t intended to be used as an OCR product). A few days ago (May 29), AWS announced the general availability of Textract, an…
A couple years ago, I tinkered with a solution to use a webcam to capture images of receipts, covert the images to raw text, and store in a database. My scrappy solution worked okay but it lacked the accuracy to make it viable for anything real-world. With AWS Rekognition launching since then, I figured I’d…
While visiting my family recently, I saw my dad entering numbers from each of the 5-8 ticket receipts he receives daily to keep track of the work he’s done, report for payroll, etc. I knew there had to be an easier way to collect this information without having to key each ticket manually or without…
