OCR Recognition Features in a Nutshell

• Recognition of the characters printed on an image is probably the most obvious task that OCR.

• A lot of different aspects have to be considered
  • Languages are in documents
  • How is the text printed on paper: on a laser printer, on a typewriter, on a dot matrix printer, etc..
  • What areas should be analyzed or recognized
    • Only text without reading order
    • Should tables be detected?
    • Should barcodes be recognized
  • Does the document consist of separate pages or are they linked?
  • Should the logic of the document be analyzed to reconstruct the table of content?
  • How many CPU cores can be used for recognition.

• Below you can see that there are a lot of different areas that have a strong influence on this processing step.

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