Query regarding OCR engine #2672

I've been wondering the same thing. But my guess is that the ocr engine is tightly coupled to the partition library because the ocr engine would output data in a specific way.

My biggest issue is that tesseract doesn't support GPUs so that slows down the extraction if you want to use high-res for example. Particularly for large documents.

There are some newer approaches like https://github.com/VikParuchuri/surya that are promising, allow for multiple parallel processing, and run on multiple GPUs if needed. It would be interesting to see if something like that could be supported.

This is possible now just not documented - see here