I've tried Paddle, its great that its open source, but doesn't hold a candle to Google's OCR. Pro-tip: if you only need it for a few images, Google photos automatically does OCR if it recognizes its a doc.
Android does OCR natively as well. Drag up from the bottom part way (the gesture that opens the view that lets you scroll left and right through all your open apps) and then press and hold on some text and you'll be able to select and copy text being displayed by one of your apps.
Oh that would be interesting. Can you say more? I tried on a Samsung S7 but I can't seem to do it. Maybe it's a later Android version, last time the S7 was updated it was with v8 o_O
After crowdsourcing the training models, I would hope that Goog's OCR is pretty damn accurate. If the crowdsourcing doesn't help, then I feel sorry for those self-driving folks using the latest data being created.
