tesseract-preprocessing-convolution-poc

Ipynb POC for Convolutional Preprocessor used to enhance Tesseract's Accuracy. Please excuse the messy code.

Small POC to demonstrate the idea in https://codingvision.net/ai/improving-tesseract-4-ocr-accuracy-through-image-preprocessing

Citation

@article{sporici2020improving,
  title={Improving the Accuracy of Tesseract 4.0 OCR Engine Using Convolution-Based Preprocessing},
  author={Sporici, Dan and Cușnir, Elena and Boiangiu, Costin-Anton},
  journal={Symmetry},
  volume={12},
  number={5},
  pages={715},
  year={2020},
  publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute}
}