Next Generation OCR using Machine Learning

alpha2phi
3 min readSep 19, 2021

Next-generation character recognition using machine learning.

Photo by Romain Vignes on Unsplash

Overview

In this article, I am going to develop a React + FastAPI application that captures images from the webcam and uses an OCR-trained model to detect the text.

PaddleOCR is the OCR toolkits that I use. From my testing, it is a lightweight and high-performing ML OCR

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alpha2phi

Software engineer, Data Science and ML practitioner.