Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ...
by ocrcustomserver on Thursday November 09, 2017 @10:19PM
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Well it is more complex than it appears.
Extracting data from documents requires a solution which uses OCR but is a different product (e.g. ABBYY FlexiCapture).
This is most commonly referred to as zonal OCR and comes with the added functionality of handling multiple templates, defining zones/fields, specifying special rules for fields, verification process for manual inspection (e.g. triggered when the image receives a low confidence recognition score) etc. This is different and more complex than a product that does full page OCR (e.g. ABBYY Finereader).
Handwritten OCR is a whole different story. The products that do zonal OCR will fail to recognize handwritten text, unless it's in boxes (PDF forms). I'm working on a prototype that can handle handwritten text outside of boxes too.
Extracting data from documents requires a solution which uses OCR but is a different product (e.g. ABBYY FlexiCapture).
This is most commonly referred to as zonal OCR and comes with the added functionality of handling multiple templates, defining zones/fields, specifying special rules for fields, verification process for manual inspection (e.g. triggered when the image receives a low confidence recognition score) etc. This is different and more complex than a product that does full page OCR (e.g. ABBYY Finereader).
Handwritten OCR is a whole different story. The products that do zonal OCR will fail to recognize handwritten text, unless it's in boxes (PDF forms). I'm working on a prototype that can handle handwritten text outside of boxes too.