22.4 OCR Optical Character Recognition

THIS SECTION IS UNDER DEVELOPMENT. PLEASE COME BACK LATER

A useful training dataset or demo data can be found from https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aharley/rvl-cdip/

Azure’s Computer Vision cloud service, through the MLHub repository, offers ocr as does the open source easyocr ocr command, though the latter tends to not as good as the former.

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