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Reconhecimento óptico de caracteres

Ler o texto de uma imagem como caracteres editáveis

Compreensão visualIniciante #15
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O texto completo é apresentado em inglês; o título e o resumo estão traduzidos.

O QUE ESTA CAPACIDADE SIGNIFICA

Takes an image containing text — a scan, a photo, a screenshot — and outputs the character sequence, usually with location boxes. It reads characters rather than interpreting them: the output is a transcription, not a meaning. Unlike document parsing, which also cares about layout such as tables, columns and reading order, OCR is only responsible for getting the characters right.

Como é feita tecnicamente

The classic pipeline has two steps: a detection network finds quadrilateral boxes for lines or words, then each crop is passed to a sequence recogniser that decodes characters. Recognition moved from CNN plus recurrent layers with connectionist temporal classification to attention decoders and plain convolutional or Transformer designs. More recently, multimodal models transcribe end to end and handle irregular layouts better.

Produtos representativos

5

Organizações relacionadas

Usos típicos

  • Field capture from invoices, receipts and IDs
  • Digitising paper archives and books
  • Street-sign and licence-plate reading
  • Copying text from screenshots and photos

Como avaliar se funciona bem

Character error rate
Substitutions, deletions and insertions over the truth length
Word error rate
Word-level error rate, sensitive to segmentation
Detection F1
Localisation accuracy of text regions

Limites e dificuldades

  • Handwriting and poor scans — blurry, skewed, smudged — drive the error rate up sharply
  • Vertical text, mixed scripts and decorative fonts are frequently missed or misread
  • Tables and formulas come out as a character stream, losing row-column structure and super/subscripts

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