Author: Ben SmithBased in Tokyo, Ben Smith is the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Research at Tabscanner. He pioneers deep learning models specifically designed for receipt optical character recognition (OCR) and document classification, engineering the core AI architectures that enable high-accuracy data extraction.

Believe it or not, the roots of optical character recognition can be traced back to 1914 when the pioneering inventor, Emanuel Goldberg, developed a machine capable of identifying characters and converting each into standard telegraph code. From this, Emanuel Goldberg developed the Octophone – the world’s first optical character recognition technology. A handheld scanner that […]

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