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> I think Tesseract is the smarter/faster/less obnoxious choice [...] There's almost certainly a better paid option available in our enlightened AI age

It would have cost $375,000 to use cloud OCR for this project. Mandatory is absolutely a baller, but not crazy enough to spend that kind of money on the project.

If you can get Tesseract to generate comparable results with sub-optimal images from eBay listings, I'd love to know more.



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