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Optical Character Recognition

Converting images of text (scanned documents, photos) into machine-readable text using computer vision.

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  1. Machine Learning ✓ understood

    Building systems that learn patterns from data instead of following hand-written rules, getting better at a task as they see more examples.

  2. Neural Network ✓ understood

    A computational model inspired by biological neural networks, consisting of interconnected nodes (neurons) organized in layers that process information through weighted connections.

  3. Deep Learning ✓ understood

    A subset of machine learning that uses neural networks with multiple layers (deep neural networks) to learn hierarchical representations of data.

  4. Computer Vision ✓ understood

    The field of AI that gets computers to extract meaning from images and video: what is in them, where it is, and how it moves.

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Vision & Multimodal Object Detection Finding every object of interest in an image and giving each a class label, a confidence score and a bounding box. Vision & Multimodal Image Preprocessing Transforming images before model input (resizing, normalization, color adjustment). Language & LLMs Information Extraction Automatically extracting structured information from unstructured text. Neural Networks Convolutional Neural Network A neural network that scans images with small learned filters, reusing the same weights at every position to build up from edges to whole objects. Language & LLMs Text Classification Assigning categories or labels to text documents, a fundamental NLP task.

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3 papers that build on Optical Character Recognition .