Mixed Model OCR Training on Historical Latin Script for Out-of-the-Box Recognition and Finetuning

no code implementations • 15 Jun 2021 • Christian Reul, Christoph Wick, Maximilian Nöth, Andreas Büttner, Maximilian Wehner, Uwe Springmann

Training a more specialized model for some unseen Early Modern Latin books starting from our mixed model led to a CER of 1. 47%, an improvement of up to 50% compared to training from scratch and up to 30% compared to training from the aforementioned standard model.

Data Augmentation Optical Character Recognition +1