awslabs / handwritten-text-recognition-for-apache-mxnet

This repository lets you train neural networks models for performing end-to-end full-page handwriting recognition using the Apache MXNet deep learning frameworks on the IAM Dataset.
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Can this OCR be used for japanese line prediction too? #34

Closed man0007 closed 4 years ago

jonomon commented 4 years ago

It may be possible to train the architecture for hiragana or katakana if you have a labelled dataset. However, the current CNN-biLSTM is not optimised for kanji recognition (please see https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8977956).