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Computer Vision Engineering
Module 7 of 8
7. OCR (Reading Text)
1. Tesseract vs Deep Learning
Old OCR used pattern matching. Modern OCR uses CRNNs (CNN + RNN).
- CNN: Extracts features from image slices.
- RNN: Predicts the sequence of characters.
2. PaddleOCR
The current industrial standard for lightweight, multi-language OCR.