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Medical Bill OCR
In this tutorial, we use Roboflow Workflows and Google Gemini to scan any medical bill image, extract structured data automatically, and build a personal medical expense record over time.
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How to Detect, Track, and Identify Basketball Players with Computer Vision
Build a computer vision pipeline that detects, tracks, and identifies NBA players during a game. Using models like RF-DETR, SAM2, SigLIP, SmolVLM2, and ResNet, the system handles motion blur, occlusion, and uniform similarity to reliably map jersey numbers to player identities.
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What is OCR Data Extraction?
Learn what OCR data extraction is and what models you can use to programmatically read the contents of images.
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Extract Nutrition Data from Food Labels with Computer Vision
Accurate nutrition data extraction from food labels is difficult due to the variability of label information, size of labels, and current vision model capabilities. Traditional OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools struggle with the complexity and variability of food labels, but Vision Language Models (VLMs) like GPT-4o offer a powerful, context-aware
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How to Use EasyOCR
Learn how to use OCR to read and extract text from an image.
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How to Extract Text From Images
Introduction to Text Extraction
Manually working with data in JPG, PNG, or PDF formats can be a hassle, as it takes a lot of time to analyze and these files can't be managed easily in a programmatic way. We can use tools, either online or offline, to convert
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The Guide to AI OCR
Learn what AI OCR is and how it is used in computer vision.
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What is Handwriting Recognition?
In this guide, we go over an overview of handwriting recognition, including the use cases, challenges, and ways of using of handwriting recognition, as well as a tutorial.
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How to Use OCR on Videos
In this guide, we cover the process of how to use OCR on videos together with computer vision to solve real-world problems.
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Best OCR Models for Text Recognition in Images
See how nine different OCR models compare for scene text recognition across industrial domains.
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How to Use OCR in Manufacturing
In this guide, we discuss how OCR is used in manufacturing and how you can apply OCR in a manufacturing facility.
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What Is Optical Character Recognition (OCR)?
Learn what Optical Character Recognition is, what problems can be solved with OCR, and explore the approaches used by OCR algorithms to identify characters.
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How to Detect Text in Images with OCR
This guide shows how to use the Roboflow OCR API as part of a two-stage detection system that identifies regions of interest and reads text in them.
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