Re:Ask HN: Open source OCR library?
by netheril96 on Thursday June 25, 2015 @09:42PM
(#9782050)
In my experience, CNNs offer the best performance. It is also easy to treat as a black box with many tunable parameters.
But the existing frameworks are mostly bad as an engineering product. Caffe, for example, calls `exit` every time an error occurs, including recoverable ones like files which do not exist.
Re:Ask HN: Open source OCR library?
by hbornfree on Friday June 26, 2015 @04:25AM
(#9782989)
Yes, even we found Caffe to be overwhelming.
This library seems promising considering there are no dependencies and is quite portable to Android or iOS. https://github.com/nyanp/tiny-cnn
But the existing frameworks are mostly bad as an engineering product. Caffe, for example, calls `exit` every time an error occurs, including recoverable ones like files which do not exist.