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Need help debugging newspaper OCR + region detection pipeline (PaddleOCR)

Reddit r/computervision1mo4 min read

Hi everyone, I'm working on a project to automatically process newspaper pages and extract/analyze crime-related news from them. I'm currently using PaddleOCR on newspaper pages. The page is divided into regions/sections, and I'm running OCR on those regions and then checking the extracted text against the original newspaper. The main problem is that I'm getting several types of errors: OCR text is missing even though it is clearly visible in the newspaper. Text sometimes appears under the wrong region. Punctuation is incorrect — for example, a . may be detected as : , or commas/periods may be

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