** A comprehensive course for people who would like to become Computer Vision - Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Specialist. This course contains 29 downloadable Source Code Resources and Projects on Invoice Processing, KYC Digitization, Business Card Recognition and Automatic Number Plate Recognition **

Optical Character Recognition commonly called as OCR is the new buzzword in Artificial Intelligence Industry which is driving Digitization in the enterprises. Every enterprise wants to adopt OCR to achieve easier and quicker access to their streams of data in digital format. An OCR implementation not only speed up the workflow of Text processes across various industries but also help in providing better customer experience. In fact, as per a recent research report, OCR market which was around 7.2 billion US Dollar is expected to see a huge growth in market size and will reach 13.4 billion US dollar by 2025.

Enroll in this course to get a complete understanding of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for Data Extraction from Images and PDF using Python. The course explains the theory of concepts followed by code demonstration to make you an expert in computer vision OCR. It provides hands-on guidance on Text Detection with OpenCV and Deep Learning Models, Text Recognition with Tesseract and OCR along with Text Labelling through Spacy and Regular Expression. It guides you to create technical solutions on most relevant OCR uses cases in the industry where we are using OCR to convert image to text.

Here are just few of the topics we will be learning:

• OCR Architecture

• Text Detectionfrom Image

• Text Recognition from Image

• Pixels and Image Basics

• Image Properties

• Kernel and Feature Map

• Preprocessing Techniques (Binarisation, Thresholding, Rescaling)

• Noise Removal Techniques (Morphology, Dilation, Erosion, Blurring, Orientation, Deskewing, Borders, Perspective Transformation)

• Image Segmentation

• EasyOCR

• PyTesseract Operations

• Tesseract

• Named Entity Recognition

• Spacy for Named Entity Recognition

• Regular Expression for Text and Dates

• Training of CTPN and EAST Deep Learning Model on SIROEDataset

• CTPN Model for Text Detection & Text Recognition

• EAST Model for Text Detection & Text Recognition

• Invoice Processing OCR Solution with python code

• Invoice Structured Output in XML Format Solution with python code

• Vehicle Nameplate OCR Solution with python code

• Business Card Recognition OCR Solution with python code

• KYC Digitization OCR Solution with python code

** Nov 2021 - The course has been updated with 4 new lectures

a) CTPNText Detection on Google Colab

b) EASTText Detection on Google Colab

c) CTPNText Recognition on Google Colab

d) EASTText Recognition on Google Colab

** May 2021 - The course has been updated with Bonus Lecture on Training of CTPN and EAST on ICDAR - SIROEDataset**