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do_ocr_word_svm — Classify a related group of characters with an OCR classifier.
do_ocr_word_svm(Character, Image : : OCRHandle, Expression, NumAlternatives, NumCorrections : Class, Word, Score)
do_ocr_word_svm works like do_ocr_multi_class_svm insofar as it computes the best class for each of the characters given by the regions Character and the gray values Image with the OCR classifier OCRHandle, and returns the results in Class.
In contrast to do_ocr_multi_class_svm, do_ocr_word_svm treats the group of characters as an entity which yields a Word by concatenating the class names for each character region. This allows to restrict the allowed classification results on a textual level by specifying an Expression describing the expected word.
The Expression may restrict the word to belong to a predefined lexicon created using create_lexicon or import_lexicon, by specifying the name of the lexicon in angular brackets as in '<mylexicon>'. If the Expression is of any other form, it is interpreted as a regular expression with the same syntax as specified for tuple_regexp_match. Note that you will usually want to use an expression of the form '^...$' when using variable quantifiers like '*', to ensure that the entire word is used in the expression. Also note that in contrast to tuple_regexp_match, do_ocr_word_svm does not support passing extra options in an expression tuple.
If the word derived from the best class for each character does not match the Expression, do_ocr_word_svm attempts to correct it by considering the NumAlternatives best classes for each character. The alternatives used are identical to those returned by do_ocr_single_class_svm for a single character. It does so by testing all possible corrections for which the classification result is changed for at most NumCorrections character regions.
In case the Expression is a lexicon and the above procedure did not yield a result, the most similar word in the lexicon is returned as long as it requires less than NumCorrections edit operations for the correction (see suggest_lexicon).
The resulting word is graded by a Score between 0.0 (no correction found) and 1.0 (original word correct), which is dominated by the number of corrected characters but also adds a minor penalty for ignoring the second best class or even all best classes (in case of lexica).
Characters to be recognized.
Gray values of the characters.
Handle of the OCR classifier.
Expression describing the allowed word structure.
Number of classes per character considered for the internal word correction.
Default value: 3
Suggested values: 3, 4, 5
Typical range of values: 1 ≤ NumAlternatives
Maximum number of corrected characters.
Default value: 2
Suggested values: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Typical range of values: 0 ≤ NumCorrections
Result of classifying the characters with the SVM.
Number of elements: Class == Character
Word text after classification and correction.
Measure of similarity between corrected word and uncorrected classification results.
The complexity of checking all possible corrections is of magnitude , where a is the number of alternatives, n is the number of character regions, and c is the number of allowed corrections. However, to guard against a near-infinite loop in case of large n, c is internally clipped to 5, 3, or 1 if a*n >= 30, 60, or 90, respectively.
If the parameters are valid, the operator do_ocr_word_svm returns the value 2 (H_MSG_TRUE). If necessary an exception is raised.
trainf_ocr_class_svm, read_ocr_class_svm
create_ocr_class_svm, classify_class_svm
OCR/OCV
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