TensorFlow OCR Model for Reading Captchas
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Rokas Liuberskis
Originally published on Towards AI.
Training a Custom OCR for Captcha Image Text Extraction with TensorFlow and CTC Loss Function: A Step-by-Step Guide. Using the mltu Library to Simplify the Process
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In the previous tutorial, I showed you how to train our custom OCR for simple word images to extract text. There I gave many explanations about where, why, and how we do things, but it had one huge drawback — we used 10 GB training datasets, and not everyone can download that huge fail and train for hours just for fun. So, I created a continuation for that tutorial explaining how to train CTC for simple captcha images.
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