Running OCR inference

System Requirements

This code was tested with Ubuntu(20.04.3 LTS) with Python 3.8.10, MacOSX Sonoma 14.2.1 with Python 3.9.16

Setup Virtual environment and install requirements

python3 -m venv env
source env/bin/activate
pip3 install -r requirements

To run the demo with a predefined video input, use the following

Check out the test_videos directory for sample videos.

python3 run_ocr_demo.py --video_file ./test_videos/amex.mp4

Samples

American Express

Quick Read

To run the demo on the frames from your webcam, use the following

Place your card infront of the webcam.

python3 run_ocr_demo.py

American Express

VISA Gift Card

For more information on the project

Read the full paper Doing good by fighting fraud: Ethical anti-fraud systems for mobile payments

Acknowledgement

We would like to thank Max deGroot for ssd.ptorch and Hao for pytorch-ssd and Joseph Redmon for YOLO and Darknet. We borrow from these projects.