It's pretty remarkable that they were able to build a system more or less from scratch that "gave us the accuracy, precision, and recall numbers that all met or

It's pretty remarkable that they were able to build a system more or less from scratch that "gave us the accuracy, precision, and recall numbers that all met or exceeded the OCR state-of-the-art." There was a recent post on the Google Developers blog about a similar project to recognize bottle-cap codes in a mobile app: https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/09/how-machine-learning-with-tensorflow.html https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/09/how-machine-learni... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15489176