How Deep Learning has Revolutionized OCR with Cha Zhang , 416

Today were joined by Cha Zhang, a Partner Engineering Manager at Microsoft Cloud AI. Chas work at MSFT is focused on exploring ways that new technologies can be applied to optical character recognition, or OCR, pushing the boundaries of what has been seen as an otherwise solved problem. In our conversation with Cha, we explore some of the traditional challenges of doing OCR in the wild, and what are the ways in which deep learning algorithms are being applied to transform these solutions. We also di