Secret of Google Web-Based OCR Service

Introduction to Optical Character Recognition

Edward Ma
Towards Data Science
4 min readJan 13, 2019

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the way to connect reality world and virtual word. First OCR system is introduced in late 1920s. The objective of OCR is recognising text from image. However, it is very challenge to achieve a very high accuracy due to lots of factors. In the following story, I will introduce…

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