v1.2.0 (🔍 Pororo OCR)

BetterOCR

🔍 BetterOCR combines results from multiple OCR engines with an 🧠 LLM to correct & reconstruct the output.

Before	After (✨ latest at v1.2.0)

• Improved English/Korean text recognition with new Pororo OCR support! 🎉
• Special thanks to @black7375 for https://github.com/black7375/korean_ocr_using_pororo (where he suggested using EasyOCR for text detection and BrainOCR (Pororo's OCR module) for text recognition) and #2.
• Also kudos to the @kakaobrain team and @yunwoong7.

Notes

Pororo is used only if the language options (lang) specified include either 🇺🇸 English (en) or 🇰🇷 Korean (ko). Also additional dependencies listed in [tool.poetry.group.pororo.dependencies] must be available. (If not, it'll automatically be excluded from enabled engines.)

What's Changed

• [ImgBot] Optimize images by @imgbot in #7
• Write parser tests by @junhoyeo in #9
• EasyPororoOCR Integration by @junhoyeo in #8

New Contributors

• @imgbot made their first contribution in #7

Full Changelog: v1.1.2...v1.2.0

v1.1.2 (🛠️ Bug Fix)

BetterOCR

🔍 BetterOCR combines results from multiple OCR engines with an 🧠 LLM to correct & reconstruct the output.

What's Changed

• Fix Incorrect Inclusion of API_KEY in chat.completions.create Call by @snacsnoc in #3

New Contributors

• @snacsnoc made their first contribution in #3

Full Changelog: v1.1.1...v1.1.2

v1.1.1 (Bug Fixes for 📦 Box Detection)

BetterOCR

🔍 BetterOCR combines results from multiple OCR engines with an 🧠 LLM to correct & reconstruct the output.

What's Changed

• Improved prompt in Box Detection
• Fix bug inside detect_boxes's fallback logic (when LLM output format is invalid)

Full Changelog: v1.1.0...v1.1.1

v1.1.0 (📦 Box Detection)

BetterOCR

🔍 BetterOCR combines results from multiple OCR engines with an 🧠 LLM to correct & reconstruct the output.

What's Changed

• Box Detection (detect_boxes) had been implemented by @junhoyeo in #1
• Demo: https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR#-box-detection (Example Script: https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR/blob/main/examples/detect_boxes.py)

Original	Detected

Full Changelog: https://github.com/junhoyeo/BetterOCR/commits/v1.1.0

v1.0.1 (Initial Release 📖)

BetterOCR

🔍 Better text detection by combining multiple OCR engines with 🧠 LLM.

OCR still sucks! ... Especially when you're from the other side of the world (and face a significant lack of training data in your language) — or just not thrilled with noisy results.

BetterOCR combines results from multiple OCR engines with an LLM to correct & reconstruct the output.

• 🔍 OCR Engines: Currently supports EasyOCR and Tesseract.
• 🧠 LLM: Supports Chat models from OpenAI.
• 📒 Custom Context: Allows users to provide an optional context to use specific keywords such as proper nouns and product names. This assists in spelling correction and noise identification, ensuring accuracy even with rare or unconventional words.

Head over to 💯 Examples to view performace by languages (🇺🇸, 🇰🇷, 🇮🇳).

Coming Soon: improved interface, async support, box detection, and more.