Toshiba AI Technology Catalog

Media recognition

Optical Character Recognition for Japanese text

Accurately recognizes handwritten characters.

Accurately recognizes handwritten and printed text in documents and forms.
Deep learning-based recognition enables highly accurate recognition even for messy handwriting characters.

Applications

Form image OCR, Telop OCR and Scene Text Recognition

Benchmarks, strengths, and track record

More than 98% recognition accuracy (evaluation with in-house data set)
Applied for AI OCR service from Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation.

Inquiries

Toshiba Digital Solutions Corporation (in Japanese)

References:

R. Tanaka, et al. “Fast Distributional Smoothing for Regularization in CTC Applied to Text Recognition,” ICDAR 2019.
R. Tanaka, et al. “Text-Conditioned Character Segmentation for CTC-Based Text Recognition,” ICDAR 2021.
https://www.global.toshiba/jp/company/digitalsolution/articles/sat/1902_2.html (in Japanese)
https://www.global.toshiba/jp/products-solutions/ai-iot/mojigazou/moji/overview.html (in Japanese)

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