Improving OCR Accuracy on Early Printed Books using Deep Convolutional Networks
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This paper proposes a combination of a convolutional and a LSTM network to improve the accuracy of OCR on early printed books. While the standard model of line based OCR uses a single LSTM layer, we utilize a CNN- and Pooling-Layer combination in advance of an LSTM layer. Due to the higher amount of trainable parameters the performance of the network relies on a high amount of training examples to unleash its power. Hereby, the error is reduced by a factor of up to 44 voting mechanism to achieve character error rates (CER) below 0.5 runtime of the deep model for training and prediction of a book behaves very similar to a shallow network.
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