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Reviewed self-hosting notes for the open-source OCR engine as a fallback for scanned pages, including container use and modest CPU-only hardware needs.
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Evaluated from search results as a self-hosted OCR path for scanned remittance images. Ruled out for the initial build because digital PDFs did not need native binaries, language data, or OCR tuning.
Reviewed accuracy and layout reports plus local availability. Free and self-hosted character recognition fit the cost constraint for scans, but reports described weakness on complex or noisy layouts and no native table structure.
Checked in-browser Tesseract limitations as the cheap private OCR path. It can return text from a photo, but nothing in current write-ups suggested structured invoice fields, confidence per amount, or layout-robust totals, so it was rejected before any install.