Mastering OCR using Deep Learning and OpenCV-Python

Hi There!

Welcome to the course ‘Mastering OCR using Deep Learning and OpenCV–Python’. This is the first course of my OCR series.

In this course we will start from the very basics. We will first discuss what is Optical Character Recognition and why you should invest your time in learning this.

Then we will move to the general pipeline used by most of the OCR systems available.

After this we will start learning each pipeline component in detail. We will start by learning some image pre–processing techniques commonly used in OCR systems.

Then we will learn some deep learning based text detection algorithms such as EAST and CTPN. We will also implement the EAST algorithm using OpenCV–Python.

Next we will learn the crux of the CTC which is widely used in developing text recognition systems. We will implement very famous text recognition algorithm that is CRNN.

Finally we will learn the last component of the OCR pipeline that is restructuring. In this we will discuss why is restructuring important for any OCR systems.

We will also discuss an open source end–to–end OCR engine which is pytesseract.

Finally we will run the complete OCR pipeline to extract the data from identification document using pytesseract.