History of Optical Character Recognition

History of Large Language Models
In this week's meeting, Ryan will be taking us through the history of Optical Character Recognition, commonly shortened to OCR. This is the technology core to reading the text from images and turning them into machine text. This technology has been a silent force in many business applications for decades and is often taken for granted. He will walk through how much more capable these systems have become over the years, how they are typically trained, and the different architectures and datasets that have become core to this technology and how they are evaluated.

Agenda:

• 12:00 - 1:30 pm -- Presentations and discussions

Links to notes/slides and videos of prior meetups are available on the SDML GitHub repo https://github.com/SanDiegoMachineLearning/talks

Location:
We are meeting at Aquillius in Rancho Bernardo.

Please Note: There are two steps required to join the online meetup:

• You must go to our Slack community and ask for the password for the meeting. Link to join is below.
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