OCR is an old problem. There is commercial software, such as Finereader,
and free software such as Tesseract. But is there also a new trend in
home-built software based on new frameworks for neural networks and
deep learning? Keras? TensorFlow? Is anybody experimenting with this
for OCR of scanned books?
When I ask researchers in image processing / computer vision, they
say that plain text (book) OCR "is a solved problem" that nobody
researches, and all research goes into self-driving cars reading
street signs. Is this true, or are there any exceptions?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
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