Here are some stats contributed by Mark Kerzner and Amanda Towler from Hyperion Gray.
Total number of images to process: about 300,000 Average time per image: about 1 sec Total run time required: about 10 days Our run times on various bathes: about 1 day total OCR quality: decent
Future Work
- Use Tika, rather than do Tesseract directly
- Scale it up with Spark or Hadoop
- A few polishes, with the view on other teams/projects using it later