OCR - 3.5 English

Vitis AI Library User Guide (UG1354)

Document ID
UG1354
Release Date
2023-06-29
Version
3.5 English

This network is used for optical character recognition which comprises of text detection and text recognition. The network is composed of a ResNet-FPN feature extractor, a detection branch, and a recognition branch. The model is trained by the ICDAR-2017 dataset. The input is an image containing some character. The output is a structure that includes the words recognized and their position. The following image shows the result of OCR.

Figure 1. OCR Example

The following table lists the OCR models supported by the Vitis AI Library.

Table 1. OCR model
No Model Name Framework
1 ocr_pt PyTorch