Business cards detection & OCR

Industry: General purpose

Overview

Compiling virtual databases of business cards for an online verification firm. Business cards come in many forms & formats & nowadays taking your business online means opening a huge market for your product. And lots of business owners daily apply for verification & getting information from images manually is time consuming. For that we were tasked to implement a deep learning model which can be used for any background & any color of card to extract information from it.

Technology

Python
Deep Learning
Neural Networks
Computer Vision
Image Processing

Key Technical Challenges:

Background for extracting usually must be the same but here it was not so. We had to work our way in building such models.
Different fonts for possibly every business card we come across. Had to work to make the model more generalized.