Pipeline of the system

[dkurman]

In order to make the process of integration easy we have to

• think of the general pipeline of the system
• define the programming interfaces so that the data seamlessly flow from stage to stage

[dkurman]

Pipeline:

1. preprocessing (horizontal alignment):
   • input:
     • raw image of an envelope
   • output:
     • horizontally aligned image
2. text region detection
   • input:
     • pre-processed image
   • output:
     • bbox of the sender
     • bbox of the receiver
3. text segmentation
   • input:
     • image of the text region
   • output:
     • list of words
4. word recognition
   • input:
     • image of a word
   • output:
     • class of the word