This tool is on the techier end of the spectrum of things we talk about around here, but I suspect it might be of interest to those dealing with large, legacy PDF files:
Simon is, among other gurudoms, a Python guru, and makes stuff so cool that even a Javascript addict like myself always checks out! (I mean, he is also a Javascript guru. Anyway.)
The idea here is that you upload a PDF to a “bucket” (essentially a cloud-based directory) on Amazon S3, and then use their separate service (“Textract”) to do the OCR. I was surprised to see that the description of the page claims that they can recognize handwriting.
As always, Simon’s writeup on how to use his s3-ocr tool is very clear. If anyone here ends up giving it a try, a post-mortem would be very interesting.
The before/after example is not perfect (to my eyes, it’s not as good as Transkribus, but it’s pretty compelling:
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Farcomas spindle. cells in nested gowers 271
Fayigaga tridactylites, leaf glaur of ruce 33
staining & mounting
Stiles 133
tilica films, a structure of Diatoins morehouse 38
thile new microscopic
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Smith reproduction in the huntroom tribe
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285
forby, Presidents address
105
pongida, difficulties of classification
238
tage, american adjustable concentric
150
ttlese staining & mountring wood sections 133
Stodder, Frustulia Iasconica, havicula
chomboides, & havi cula crassinervis 265
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falicylic acid u movorcopy
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