Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and Deep Learning

Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by rb2018 on Friday November 10, 2017 @04:59AM (#15668934)

>Since OCR is basically "hello world" for tensorflow,

This is a strong statement. Do you have any links to code or documentation that implements high-quality OCR with tensorflow?

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Re:Creating a Modern OCR Pipeline Using Computer Vision and ... by pault on Friday November 10, 2017 @01:00PM (#15671665)

Not high quality. But since MNIST is typically used as a baseline reference, I was surprised that more advanced character recognition wasn't a staple in the field. From the tensorflow introduction[0]: "When one learns how to program, there's a tradition that the first thing you do is print 'Hello World.' Just like programming has Hello World, machine learning has MNIST."

I realize that this is a result of my lack of knowledge about the field, but the ML hype train makes it easy to overestimate the capabilities of deep learning as a layperson.

[0] https://www.tensorflow.org/get_started/mnist/beginners

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