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computer-vision

The OCR pipeline -- text detection, recognition, and document layout

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Separating text detection (where is the text) from text recognition (what does it say) as two distinct stages of an OCR pipeline, and reading document layout analysis as the step that groups recognized text into meaningful regions before it's used.

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  • bounding-box-iou-and-nms recommended

    Text detection is a detection-shaped problem -- it reuses ch.13's own bounding-box/confidence machinery to locate text regions before recognition ever runs.

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