Announcing the ICDAR 2023 Competition on Hierarchical Text Detection and Recognition

Posted by Shangbang Long, Software Engineer, Google Research

The last few decades have witnessed the rapid development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology, which has evolved from an academic benchmark task used in early breakthroughs of deep learning research to tangible products available in consumer devices and to third party developers for daily use. These OCR products digitize and democratize the valuable information that is stored in paper or image-based sources (e.g., books, magazines, newspapers, forms, street signs, restaurant menus) …

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