OCR finds and transcribes text on screen: signs, captions, documents, plates. In video it must cope with motion, angle, and low resolution. It feeds search, compliance, and indexing of footage that would otherwise be opaque to software.
The book · Volume 6 of 7
AI for Video: A Complete Guide to Intelligence in Video Products: From Models and Inference to Computer Vision, Speech, Search, and Generative Video
OCR on video has to read text that moves, tilts and blurs, which is where document OCR tools fall short. This volume covers OCR in its computer vision section: text detection and recognition with PaddleOCR, pre-processing frames for ML, and indexing on-screen text for search over a video archive. Written by Nikolay Sapunov, CEO at Fora Soft.
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