From 701c3b371b3285a34c791adf8f4e5dfeeda54de3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "James R. Barlow" Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 13:45:41 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] docs: take a more vender neutral position on commercial OCR --- docs/introduction.rst | 2 +- docs/pdfsecurity.rst | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/introduction.rst b/docs/introduction.rst index 360d57ec..b00b0649 100644 --- a/docs/introduction.rst +++ b/docs/introduction.rst @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Limitations OCRmyPDF is limited by the Tesseract OCR engine. As such it experiences these limitations, as do any other programs that rely on Tesseract: -- The OCR is not as accurate as commercial solutions such as Abbyy. +- The OCR is not as accurate as commercial OCR solutions. - It is not capable of recognizing handwriting. - It may find gibberish and report this as OCR output. - If a document contains languages outside of those given in the diff --git a/docs/pdfsecurity.rst b/docs/pdfsecurity.rst index 04ad4e90..4885ab03 100644 --- a/docs/pdfsecurity.rst +++ b/docs/pdfsecurity.rst @@ -128,8 +128,9 @@ Commercial alternatives The author also provides professional services that include OCR and building databases around PDFs, and is happy to provide consultation. -Abbyy Cloud OCR is a viable commercial alternative with a web services -API. +Abbyy Cloud OCR is viable commercial alternative with a web services +API. Amazon Textract, Google Cloud Vision, and Microsoft Azure +Computer Vision provide advanced OCR but have less PDF rendering capability. Password protection, digital signatures and certification =========================================================