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Posted on 2017 April 30 by polgarp · Tagged in Dropbox, Computer vision, and OCR
Original link: https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/04/creating-a-modern-ocr-pipeline-using-computer-vision-and-deep-learning/
Fascinating read on Dropbox’s new OCR system with lots of juicy details on how they ended up with their final product. While the product goal was clear, there were lots of human issues besides the engineering challenges - like patterns in data of the real world use needed to be understood, and even the training data collection tool needed to be designed. Some good tips if you are working on something similar.