/Tag-Recognizer

This repo contains code for recognizing Hospital Tags in Canadian Hospitals.

Primary LanguagePython

Tag-Recognizer

This repo contains code for recognizing Hospital Tags in Canadian Hospitals.

Objective

The objective of this project is to build an automatic recognizer of hospital tags using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Support Vector Machines (SVM).

Description

Images of hospital tags are pre-processed. The tag’s entities are localized. The localized entities are extracted and fed into OCR. The outputs of all the entities are bundled into a JSON object as output. Python API is created for the developers to consume this tag recognizer service.

Input & Output

Input: Images of Hospital Tags from North American Hospitals

Output: JSON object of recognized characters

Tools Used

  • Python
  • Scikit-learn
  • Tesseract
  • Cherrypy

Technical Report

Find the report here