How it works...

A neural network-supported optical character recognition system is constructed to extract the text from the images. This procedure involves training the neural network system, testing, and validation using the character dataset.

Readers can refer to the article Neural network based optical character recognition system to learn the basic principles behind OCR: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6419976/.

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