Generating Synthetic Data to Train an OCR Learning Algorithm

Coding and explaining the process of synthetic data generation to enhance the accuracy of an OCR learning algorithm

Riccardo Andreoni
Towards Data Science
7 min readMay 16, 2022

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Effect of data augmentation. Source: author.

One of the most reliable ways to enhance the performance of a low bias learning algorithm is to train it on a massive amount of data. Despite the process of acquiring…

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