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by ocrcustomserver 2531 days ago
Typically OCR accuracy is measured in two ways, CER (Character error rate) and WER (Word error rate). If just one number is provided, it's typically CER.

"Finding words in images" is a bit ambiguous. It can mean "word spotting" (intended for retrieval rather than transcription) but also "text segmentation" (part of preprocessing step before OCR).