[P] OCR for extracting text from Shopping Receipts.

Hello everyone,

TLDR: What are the best open source/DIY options available as of now for extracting text from shopping receipts? I don't have a budget for paid API, but if it's cheap enough then sure.

I have been trying with Tesseract and have been getting about 80-90% accuracy when I take care in taking the photo of the receipt. So far I have not fully explored the best preprocessing steps. But mainly I do grey scale, Contrast Adjustment, and Gamma …

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