Tesseract Training for New Fonts

This repository has the scripts for installing and training Tesseract 4+.

Folder Structure

The project has the following structure:

.
|-- README.md
|-- fonts                       // This is where you place the font
|-- install_tesseract.sh        // Script for installing Tesseract
|-- ouput                       // Checkpoints and model saved here
|-- train                       // Training Data is placed here
`-- training.sh                 // Script for Training Tesseract

System Configurations

• Instance type : t2.large
• Storage : 40GB
• Operating System: Ubuntu 18

Steps for Running the Project

1. Run ./install_tesseract.sh
2. Place the font in the fonts folder
3. Run ./training.sh

Tuning Parameters

Two paramters that can be tuned to increase the performance of the model are:

1. MAX_PAGES: This is the number of pages generated for training the model.
2. NUM_ITERATIONS: This is the number of times the fine tuning process will happen.

The paramters are available in the training.sh file