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Podcast: The TWIML AI Podcast (formerly This Week in Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence)
Episode: How Deep Learning has Revolutionized OCR with Cha Zhang
Description: Today we’re joined by Cha Zhang, a Partner Engineering Manager at Microsoft Cloud & AI. Cha’s work at MSFT is focused on exploring ways that new technologies can be applied to optical character recognition, or OCR, pushing the boundaries of what has been seen as an otherwise ‘solved’ problem. In our conversation with Cha, we explore some of the traditional challenges of doing OCR in the wild, and what are the ways in which deep learning algorithms are being applied to transform these solutions. We also discuss the difficulties of using an end to end pipeli...