Character Recognition

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• Capabilities
• Multilingual Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Unconstrained Image and Video | David Etter
  • Tools/Standards:
    • Pillow file format support, an efficient internal representation, and fairly powerful image processing capabilities
    • Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) | NIST
  • Datasets/Networks:
    • ImageNet | Wikipedia
    • WordNet
    • ResNet-50
    • VGG | Oxford
    • Microsoft Scraps 10 Million Facial Recognition Photos On The Low | Kori Hale -Forbes
• Media Distillery understanding video to engage customers
• Detect text in images | Google - Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
  • Tesseract OCR | Google
    • Building an OCR using YOLO and Tesseract | i2tutorials
• Amazon Textract service that automatically extracts text and data from scanned documents

• Recommends ingredients and recipes based on a photo of food
• A gentle introduction to OCR | Gidi Shperber - Toward Data Science