Library for search of inscriptions on a photo, for php?

Question

PHP

Hello colleagues!
Users upload photos. It is necessary to check these photos for the presence of text inscriptions on them (phone numbers, url, etc.). Recommend a "light" library, without special dependencies and machine learning.
Or, if there are none, advise a cheap API for these purposes.
Thank you!

Answer 1

https://github.com/thiagoalessio/tesseract-ocr-for-php

Answer 2

Do it in python. I have not seen lib bindings for PHP that work adequately, and in other languages ​​the situation is not much better. In general, if you need machine vision or neurons, then python.

Answer 3

https://dataturks.com/blog/compare-image-text-reco...

In both precision and recall, Google vision API is a clear winner with a wide margin.