Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft
I was hoping that they had taken the time to test tables, nested tables, and irregular table rows with headers every so often.A good example of what I’m talking about are invoices. In my line of work we extract data from thousands of different types of invoices that are the only place to find key data from your services provider (waste & recycling bills, soon other parts of a building’s expenses), and normalize that information.There is a long-tail of industries that are years away from having an API to transact information…but that information is available on their monthly statements in some sort of crazy table format!In my experience Amazon Textract has been the best in terms of processing speed, ease of use, and table extraction accuracy. However post processing is almost always needed with any OCR implementation.Edit: Its important to note that Microsoft and Google don’t even support table extraction in the APIs listed in this article!