ICDAR 2019 Robust Reading Challenge on Scanned Receipts OCR and Information Extraction

Background

This repository is our team's solution of 2019 ICDAR-SROIE competition. As the name suggests, this competition is mainly about Optical Character Recognition and information extraction:

Scanned receipts OCR and information extraction (SROIE) play critical roles in streamlining document-intensive processes and office automation in many financial, accounting and taxation areas.

Dataset and Annotations

The original dataset provided by ICDAR-SROIE has a few mistakes. This has been corrected by scripts/check_data.py and you can just use the data folder in this repo.

Original dataset: Google Drive/Baidu NetDisk

The dataset has 1000 whole scanned receipt images. Each receipt image contains around about four key text fields, such as goods name, unit price and total cost, etc. The text annotated in the dataset mainly consists of digits and English characters. An example scanned receipt is shown below:

The dataset is split into a training/validation set (“trainval”) and a test set (“test”). The “trainval” set consists of 600 receipt images, the “test” set consists of 400 images.

For receipt OCR task, each image in the dataset is annotated with text bounding boxes (bbox) and the transcript of each text bbox. Locations are annotated as rectangles with four vertices, which are in clockwise order starting from the top. Annotations for an image are stored in a text file with the same file name. The annotation format is similar to that of ICDAR2015 dataset, which is shown below:

x1_1,y1_1,x2_1,y2_1,x3_1,y3_1,x4_1,y4_1,transcript_1

x1_2,y1_2,x2_2,y2_2,x3_2,y3_2,x4_2,y4_2,transcript_2

x1_3,y1_3,x2_3,y2_3,x3_3,y3_3,x4_3,y4_3,transcript_3

…

For the information extraction task, each image in the dataset is annotated with a text file with format shown below:

{
  "company": "STARBUCKS STORE #10208",
  "address": "11302 EUCLID AVENUE, CLEVELAND, OH (216) 229-0749",
  "date": "14/03/2015",
  "total": "4.95"
}

Tasks

The competition is divided into 3 tasks:

1. Scanned Receipt Text Localisation: The aim of this task is to accurately localize texts with 4 vertices.

2. Scanned Receipt OCR: The aim of this task is to accurately recognize the text in a receipt image. No localisation information is provided, or is required.

3. Key Information Extraction from Scanned Receipts: The aim of this task is to extract texts of a number of key fields from given receipts, and save the texts for each receipt image in a json file.

Usage Guide

Environment setup

We recommend conda as the package and environment manager. If you have conda available, you can use

(base)$ conda env create

and this will create a new conda environment named sroie on your computer, which will give you all the packages needed for this repo. Remember to activate the environment with

(base)$ conda activate sroie

Tasks

This repository contains our trials and solutions of three tasks. Inside each folder there are documentations of the method we adopted and guide of usage.

• Task 1 - Text Localization: CTPN & SSD
• Task 2 - Scanned Receipt OCR: CRNN
• Task 3 - Key Information Extraction: Character-wise classification with Bi-LSTM

Result

The result precision/recall/Hmean of our solution are listed as follows:

An visualisation of our solution:

Here only the localisation and recognition are visualised. Eventually we decided to use CTPN for localisation and CRNN for OCR.

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Niansong Zhang, Songyi Yang, Shengjie Xiu

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