ocrdocgen (OCR)

Overview

A simple tool for generating synthetic dataset for training of both detection and recognition part of an OCR pipeline.

Sample of synthetic document

Sample of synthetic document with bounding boxes visualization

Installation

python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m pip install flit && flit install --symlink --python /usr/bin/python3

• Install the provided weasyprint port which supports dumping the required bounding boxes

cd WeasyPrint && python3 -m pip install . 

How to use:

Just run the main.py file.

python3 ./main.py

"texts/example.txt" is the input text. "templates/" is the folder to store templates in jinja2. "images/" is the images folder to use in the template. "fonts/" is the fonts folder. poupulate some fonts run "dataset_generator.py".

Dockerimage

DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 docker build . 

Updates

• [2023/08/19] Make the code publicly available.