Exploring Next
Exploring Next — Ep 465 w/ Justy & Cody — I Spent May Evaluating Different Engines for OCR | Towards Data Science
Justy and Cody react to a hands-on OCR engine shootout across 93 messy real-world documents. The author’s core claim: OCR is now a routing problem, not a single-engine race—specialist models excel in their niche but break on out-of-domain docs, while paid structured APIs may be overkill for many use cases. They debate the economics, practicality of ‘classify-then-route,’ and whether most teams should just test on their own data.