Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing improved optical character recognition (OCR). An OCR evaluation platform may generate a script for evaluating OCR performance. The platform may generate modified resources by executing OCR applications to modify original resources. Based on executing the script, the platform may generate comparative analysis information based on comparing the modified resources to the original resource. The platform may generate metric scores based on the comparative analysis information. The metric scores may be used to generate visual representations of the performance of different OCR applications. The platform may generate weighted scores representing the performance of different OCR applications. The platform may identify a preferred OCR application for performing a particular operation. The platform may store correlations between preferred OCR applications and corresponding operations.