<story><title>Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning</title><url>https://nanonets.com/blog/attention-ocr-for-text-recogntion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jlarocco</author><text>Great article, misleading title.  It&amp;#x27;s not &amp;quot;from scratch&amp;quot; if it&amp;#x27;s using OpenCV, TensorFlow, and a web service to do all of the work.&lt;p&gt;Imagine, &amp;quot;Bake Cookies From Scratch,&amp;quot; and step one is remove the Pillsbury cookie dough from the freezer...</text></comment>
<story><title>Building a license plate reader from scratch with deep learning</title><url>https://nanonets.com/blog/attention-ocr-for-text-recogntion/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ole_gooner</author><text>Hey,&lt;p&gt;This is an a DIY Article on building a license plate detector using attention OCR.&lt;p&gt;We deep dive in with this article on how you can automate your data entry work with the help of deep learning based OCR. It speaks about attention mechanisms, spatial transformer networks and how they are applied for any text recognition task.</text></comment>