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In the first stage, I'm using #PaddleOCR
https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/PaddleOCR
Their doc says they support Windows, macOS and Linux. For simplicity, I wrapped the python dependency into podman/docker, so it's Linux-only for now. If there are potential users other than me, I guess it won't be too hard to make it cross platform.
https://github.com/Endle/beanbeaver-ocr
Before PaddleOCR, I first tried #docTR
https://github.com/mindee/doctr
Some Reddit posts claimed that docTR was the best. It was pretty well for English (Latin characters), but it doesn't support Chinese. It would try to recognize a Chinese character as a combination of Latin characters with a relatively high confidence.
PaddleOCR supports Chinese recognize, but I turned it to English-only mode. For the T&T receipt I showed, PaddleOCR provides a very low confidence to Chinese words (https://github.com/Endle/beanbeaver/blob/master/demo/receipt_groups/tnt_20251202/receipt_20260217_200222_debug.png), so beanbeaver can parse this bilingual receipt by the English parts
