How Does Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Work? 

That was the smoothest transition to a sponsor spot I've ever seen.

Irish travelers will be deeply hurt that OCR and even you don't accept that dag is a word. Has no one ever tried to sell you a dag? Or admired your dag?

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I gotta say, I really liked this one! Very informative but what really made it for me was the seamless sponsor spot. I'd love to see more in such a way!

OCR was one of the first practical uses of neural networks back in the 70s or 80s. Maybe even earlier? When I took an AI class in college, we wrote a simple OCR neural net and it was pretty easy.

I love how Luke explains stuff :D

When Luke said it wouldn't look as crisp and the video resolution went down I instantly checked if I was at 1080p

the OCR can use different techniques to recognize character, one is creating a model based on data of different characters and training the sofware to recognize them( Artificial neural networks is an example of this)

Just what I was looking for. Good Job!

Thank so much for you explaining Sir.

I was going to ask "How about Voice Recognition next?" but searched your channel, and I'll be damned, 1 year ago, you guys work fast! (Not sure how I've been missing it though, alot of content much?). It's a shame neither is "How to create your own Voice Recognition and Optical Character Recognition as fast as possible"

This is the first time i've watched a tech video and actually not had a headache after. Waiting for the interpretive google dance hehe

Very useful knowledge and easy to understand provided to the new faces of this technology.

There are also programs for character recognition on your screen. Project Naptha is a Chrome extension that can let you copy and paste words in an image. And ShareX has OCR that you can use for any program.

My ScanSnap IX500 usese software to make scans readable. It works pretty well and the IX500 is blisteringly fast.

Well, with OCR, there is an exception for the lack of accuracy. When basic modern OCR was being developed, they made a series of fonts deigned to be as accurate as possible. These fonts were OCR-A and OCR-B. These fonts are super accurate with OCR, and there is usually never any error with them.

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Saw OCR and immediately thought it had something to do with the Exam Board.

Linus ad (pulseway) on linus video. I love this ahahaha

In my industry, which is electronics. We use OCR in our automated optical machine to detect component marking on components as small as micro BGA's that are like 400microns wide. It's amazing to see how you can push it's limits. Just, sometimes like when there's a sufficient amount of flux on the components it makes it impossible to read.

that's good and all but I would have thought you'd give us and idea of what kind of devices use OCR for consumer/business.

YEES More history please. love knowledge.

luke are you finally using linux? i saw that little ubuntu font box :D good job mate!

Google translate app with OCR is pretty nifty when you can translate foreign signs etc.

Will it also recognize language? because "dag" translates to "day" in Danish

Is that an 8k green-screen video? Looks super clean

great video!

Haven't read a single comment regarding the video's topic.... only "First", "Notification Squad where you at" and comments trying to be witty..... Great video by the way, i love getting general introductory information on the subject of my studies (computer engineer). Keep at it TechQuickie :D

Luke - I actually watched the ad because of your fresh moves!

Highly recommend PaddleOCR! 80 languages supported! Good performance! Easy to use! It would be great if bloggers could do a comparative evaluation of the popular OCR tools.

You should do an as fast as possible on assistive technologies such as screen readers

Wow, I saw this video right near before my National exam days.

Cool! Thx a lot.

Which OCR recognizes Handwritten text that you have shown at the end? I couldn't find anything which actually does that within a permissible error rate :/

could you do videos explaining how mastering audio and video works? (if it doesnt already exist)

convolutional and LSTM neural networks are the cutting edge for these applications

Dennis: "You are dancing?"

Sir can you tell me how can i find duplicate numbers with any OCR app or how should i pursue to make an app for that ?

Good video. Thumbs up!

Speaking of machine learning..... that would make a good techquickie :D

well google releases a OCRT (optical character recognition translator). which translate even other character aside from ASCII (chinese, japanese, thai and other non alpha character)... it become useful for those who travel and find themselves trap into a place where no one can speak or understand english.

I've got a Chrome extension that does OCR within images. Sometimes comes in really handy.

I did some OCR recently. Tesseract on Linux was the best at recognising the text accurately, but it outputs plain text only. There are 3rd party GUIs, but still none really preserve formatting. ABBYY FineReader on Windows (the gold standard for home use) was quite good at preserving formatting but worse at recognising text accurately. My scan was 200 pages of black 12pt Times New Roman on white paper scanned at 300dpi which should be one of the easiest things to process, and it regularly made mistakes on 1 vs l vs I , y vs v, H vs II etc. And these were often in places the dictionary should have easily known what it should have been. How often do you get a lower case L in the middle of a long number or a double upper case I at the start of a word or a v at the end of a word. It took 3 hours to go through the document correcting the mistakes it highlighted. Don't know how many mistakes are in there that it didn't highlight.

Can you do video on Virtualization such as hardware, network and storage Virtualization.

Linus tech tips as fast as possible

I really like Tesseract withHomebrew on Mac for OCR.

we need a firefox plugin that will log what youtube upload has paid promotions, skip past it and end the video when teh promotion happens. this video is an example of native advertisting

You should explain core parking in the near future.

Can you please tell me about any OCR software for devanagari language . Which can cost me less

I couldn't help but to think of the line from the movie Snatch when Brad Pitt said "ya like dags?" lol

Dag is in swedish day

I downloaded but , I thought that it will recognize the different fonts that are someonetimes in just ONE page. Does anyone know an APP/Program that can recognize the font on a scanned document?

Thumbs up if anyone else checked the videoquality at 0:36 xD

So I guess the real question here is why is Luke only wearing socks while recording this? Doesn't Linus give sandals to all the employees?

I've tried Tesseract. Its free and pretty accurate.

Man, the ACR was great. Hardly any recoil

I used to use an augmented translator app for my French tests. Shit just about worked half the time

Funny used OCR last night. What a coincidence

Make an episode on network topologies

Micky: Ya like dags? Tommy: Dags? Micky: Yea, dags Tommy: OH, dogs, sure I like dags

OneNote has a pretty good built in OCR for small text articles - and it's free !! ABBYY FineReader does an excellent job converting image PDFs into searchable text based PDFs !!

Interesting !

Watching this 10 minutes before class because I have a home and I’m a highly functional college student

awesome

But can OCR ever distinguich hand written numbers and letters from eachother? Such as 0's & o's, G's & 6's, 1's & i's ,H's & 4's , j's & i's, 7's & 1's ,0's & 8's etc,,,, because numbers and letters looks similar to eachother.

Luke, you have to tell me when you go on tour -- I need to leave the country at that point....

Do speech recognition as fast as possible please.

TPS reports!!!!!! What a perfect example. Almost an easter egg.

Thanks

Dag actually means Hey or day in Dutch!

What if it's supposed to say dag, that's also a completely legitimate word used in Australian English, plus it could also be used to describe a Directed Acyclic Graph, also known as a tree.

I liked your dancing, ignore dennis. great video.

What about if you're trying to copy the line "D'ya like dags?" from Snatch?

Hi! Could you do a FPS 1%low explaination? I have seen so many tech reviewers use this term but i have no idea what it means.

Tesseract is the best OCR program out there. It is Open Source and runs on all major OS

Who else had nostalgia @ 0:36?

3:33 dag is actualy morning in dutch

I mean tbh ... when I write in OneNote some text and microsoft can figure out what I just wrote and convert it into real characters I'm always astonished since my handwriting is horrible.

I liked this "don't worry, be happy" in your video. Are you a Meher Baba lover too!!!!

Printing costs like 150 dollars for new ink if you go to retail, if you manage to go online it costs like 10-20 bucks. What the actual fuck?!!?

OCRs font work ive tried them but they dont properly. They dont read encrypted documents they spit out random incorrect letters.

it was the most simpler way to understand

If the software were dutch, the word would be "dag" (which means day in english), and not "dog".

Nice dancing, Luke

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Would be much better if was a fold able or detachable at least to use it as a tablet

I WANT INTERPRETIVE DANCE TRANSLATOR NOW!!!

Dag is a word OCR software would not pick this up spellcheck does not pickup this also

So use a normal "photographic" scanner , then use OCR services such as google drive .

Techquickie you do know most scanning software do this as part of their operation. If your's doesn't perhaps you should get a new one.

I want to see the Google interpretive dance translater

what about Fourier transform?

do you like dags?

3:38 soft g, its day in danish actually.

OCR is not for "pikies" apparently...

d'ya like dags?

Is there any awesome free software that do this? Linux or PC. Besides Google drive that is

When did Dan Reynolds start doing tech stuff?

I thought Luke missing for a while... now we know where he's been...

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