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The best way to convert image to text on my computer?
If you are looking for guidance on converting images to text on Windows 10 PC. How about the Tesseract OCR with a batch processing tool:
Pros: Tesseract is a powerful, open-source OCR engine. Its accuracy is quite good for many image types, and it's available for Windows. Batch processing can be achieved with scripting languages like Python or command-line tools. You can often improve results with pre-processing steps for your images.
Cons: Tesseract by itself doesn't handle tables well. Post-processing with Python (or other) scripts is needed to extract and format tables. Mixed languages can still cause issues if the language models aren't optimal for the specific documents. You'll need to install Tesseract and potentially language data packs. Requires some technical expertise.
Recommendation: How to convert images to text? Use Tesseract OCR combined with a Python script (using libraries like pytesseract and potentially pandas for table extraction). This provides the most flexibility and potential for accuracy.