[Feature]: Feature Request - Use Google Document AI or VIsion AI instead of Tesseract

[epatels]

Describe the proposed feature

Hi,

I know Tesseract OCR engine is free. But unfortunately is not very good especially while performing OCR for Indian Languages.

This is where Google Document AI and Google VIsion AI excels. I understand there is a cost involved in using these services.

But I am looking for a solutions that performs underlying OCR process using Google Document AI or Google VIsion AI OCR engine. The rest can remain unmodified with the output being a searchable PDF (in Indian Languages).

[grantbarrett]

I have forked and updated kkrell2016’s pre-existing Google Vision OCRmyPDF plugin and am happy to report that it works well. See here: https://github.com/grantbarrett/son-of-ocrmypdf_plugin_GoogleVision. I recognize that by using a paid service like Google it goes against the spirit of open source, but the Google Vision OCR is very, very good so the compromise is worth it to me.

[epatels]

Oh, wow. That's really great. Can't wait to test asap. Thanks and Regards, Chandrakant Patel Mumbai ----------------------------------------------------------

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