amirabbasasadi/PersianOCR

Simple word-level OCR program for the Persian language based on Recurrent Neural Networks using Pytorch and OpenCV

Simple Persian Word-Level OCR using RNN in Pytorch and OpenCV

This notebook uses Shotor dataset, a synthetic dataset for word-level OCR.

References

This paper helped me a lot, however my architecture is not same

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09441
• Pytorch Tutorial on RNNs
  For word segmentation using dilation see this:
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/10970473/4334320

The text of the image which I used to show the final result is a translation of this book:

• The Theory That Would Not Die, Sharon McGrayne