There's a new version of Wikimedia OCR out now (1.8.0), with some new localisation strings and the addition of Northern Min script, and interestingly we've switched to using the document-text-detection method of Google's API, rather than just text-detection. But we already did that change a few years ago! Oops. Somehow it was changed back. The non-document variant is for when you also want to support things like finding signs in photos.
https://ocr.wmcloud.org/
Sam Wilson
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