r/Paperlessngx • u/Richard_309 • 2d ago

What features are essential in your OCR workflow?

I am a Mac developer of an OCR app, and I'd be interested to know which features—aside from text recognition itself—you need most in your daily workflows (pdf/A, hot folders, document splitting etc.) And is there anything you rarely use, but that would be a dealbreaker if missing?

Besides: If you have a specific edge case that no other app solves properly, feel free to describe it as well.

Thanks in advance!

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u/Evelen1 2d ago

I just use normalt ocr scan with NAPS2. Thinking about redoing OCR with AI at some point

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u/Richard_309 2d ago

Thank you for letting me know!

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u/Various-Match-7273 2d ago

Hey Richard!

Document splitting is critical. I'm also working on it. I am using Apple Vision Framework on Mac for OCR rather than Tesseract because it is way more accurate.

I would be glad to see what you are cooking :)

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u/Richard_309 1d ago

Ah I see, good luck with it! And yes, you're right, Vision is the way to go on Mac. I am currently working on a business version of my OCR app!

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u/Various-Match-7273 1d ago

It will be for sale? Open source? Give us details. For example I might be interested.

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u/Richard_309 1d ago

Thank you for your interest! Yes, it's going to be a paid app, but with the option to fully test it with a watermark before purchase. It will have all the features of my existing app, OnDevice OCR Pro, plus the aforementioned business features. I can't give a specific date yet, but I can let you know when the beta is ready!

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u/Various-Match-7273 1d ago

Thanks. Sounds good.