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Excited about this... but the OCR quality seems to be very bad. Maybe it's not optimized for recognizing black text on a white background.

For example, I took a screenshot of this comment and ran it through the demo and got this:

Excited ehent this... but the OCR enenty Seems te be very bad. Maybe it's het Dptimized far recngnizing black text an e white heckgmnhe. EDI example, 1 tank e Screenshnt at this cement ehe teh it. thmneh the den» ehd get this:

It seems to recognize the bounding boxes just fine but mangles the words.




Did you try increasing the font size a bit? On a retina macbook (so effectively ~2x bigger font) I get:

Excited about this... but the OCR quality seems to be very bad. Maybe it's not optimized for recognizing black text on a white background. For example, I took a screenshot of this comment and ran it through the demo and got this:




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