Translation-Inspired OCR
Dmitriy Genzel, Ashok C. Popat, Nemanja Spasojevic, Michael Jahr, Andrew Senior, Eugene Ie, Frank Yung-Fong Tang · 2011
Optical character recognition is carried out using techniques borrowed from statistical machine translation. In particular, the use of multiple simple feature functions in linear combination, along with minimum-error-rate training, integrated decoding, and N-gram language modeling is found to be remarkably effective, across several scripts and languages. Results are presented using both synthetic and real data in five languages.