OCR & Text Recognition

Optical character recognition for robotics: text detection, scene text recognition, document OCR, and reading signs/labels in the real world.

Learning Objectives

1. OCR Pipeline Overview

2. Text Detection

2.1 EAST / CRAFT

2.2 DBNet

3. Text Recognition

3.1 CRNN

3.2 TrOCR / PaddleOCR

4. Scene Text Recognition

5. Document OCR

6. OCR in Robotics Applications

6.1 Sign Reading

6.2 Label Recognition

7. Tools & Libraries

Exercises

References