Originally published in “China Archives News” Author: Xu Liang Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a technology that converts textual information in images into character information that can be processed by computers, functioning as the “eyes” of computers and serving as an important technological foundation for visual interaction between machines and the real world. The early … Read more
Recently, I received a small project that involved organizing the vector boundaries of rivers. The task is quite simple as the data is available; however, the key issue is that the provided data was collected around 2010 and is only available in hard copy, with no electronic version. The coordinates are organized in columns, covering … Read more
OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition, which has been widely applied in the publishing industry in recent years, especially in the organization of ancient texts, reprinting of old books, and the publication of document archives. However, due to technical limitations, OCR documents often contain similar character errors. Some of these errors are very subtle and … Read more
Introduction In the digital age, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has become a key technology in many application scenarios. From automated document processing to information extraction from images, OCR technology plays an indispensable role. Today, we will delve into a powerful text recognition tool – the EasyOCR library. EasyOCR is an OCR library based on deep … Read more
The Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) Health Intelligent Research and Development Center was established in March 2014, and has long been committed to the construction of TCM health information resources and the research and application of intelligent technologies. Since 2018, the center has completed the construction of a big data platform for TCM literature. As of … Read more
If you are not familiar with what the new OCR feature can do for you, you must have encountered the following situations, and the OCR feature is the “magic remedy” for these “issues”. In work or research studies, dealing with a large number of paper documents, magazines, and PDF electronic materials makes it difficult to … Read more
Tech Ah Shui Software/Technology/Tutorial/Technical Follow Hello everyone, I am Ah Shui(The winners are announced at the end of the article) The OCR text recognition tool is something everyone will use, such as extracting a large amount of text and URLs from an image, or dealing with web pages that do not support copy-pasting, which can … Read more
There are many online OCR tools and websites for extracting text from images, many of which are free to use. For example, the commonly used QQ screenshot tool can also perform OCR text recognition. However, most of these tools require an internet connection, which can be inconvenient for users who occasionally experience internet outages and … Read more
Introduction Currently, there are many OCR models in open source projects, but there is no unified benchmark to measure which one is better. Faced with so many models, we are somewhat at a loss. Therefore, I have been wanting to build such a benchmark for some time, and it seems to have taken shape. To … Read more