This section describes how to build your custom OCR API to extract data from a Diploma certificate using the API Builder. A Diploma is a certificate awarded by an educational establishment to show that someone has successfully completed a course of study.

Prerequisites

You’ll need at least 20 different diploma images or pdfs to train your OCR model

Define Your Diploma Use Case

Using the below Diploma, we’re going to define the fields we want to extract from it.
Diploma

  • Date: Date the certificate was issued
  • University name: The name of the university that issued the certificate
  • Graduate name: The name of the graduate
  • Major: The academic major of the graduate
  • Diploma number: The graduate identification number

That’s it for this example. Feel free to add any other relevant data that fits your requirement.

Deploy Your API

Once you have defined the list of fields you want to extract from your Diploma, head over to the platform and follow these steps:

  1. Click on the Create a new API button on the right.

  2. Next, fill in the basic information about the API you want to create as seen below.

Set up your API

  1. Click on the Next button. The following page allows you to define and add your data model.

Define Your Model

There are two ways to add fields to your data model.

Data Model

Upload a JSON Config

To add data fields using JSON config upload.

  1. Copy the following JSON into a file.
{
  "problem_type": {
    "classificator": { "features": [], "features_name": [] },
    "selector": {
      "features": [
        {
          "cfg": { "filter": { "convention": "US" } },
          "handwritten": false,
          "name": "date",
          "public_name": "Date",
          "semantics": "date"
        },
        {
          "cfg": { "filter": { "alpha": -1, "numeric": -1 } },
          "handwritten": false,
          "name": "university_name",
          "public_name": "University Name",
          "semantics": "word"
        },
        {
          "cfg": { "filter": { "alpha": -1, "numeric": 0 } },
          "handwritten": false,
          "name": "graduate_name",
          "public_name": "Graduate Name",
          "semantics": "word"
        },
        {
          "cfg": { "filter": { "alpha": -1, "numeric": 0 } },
          "handwritten": false,
          "name": "major",
          "public_name": "Major",
          "semantics": "word"
        },
        {
          "cfg": { "filter": { "is_integer": -1 } },
          "handwritten": false,
          "name": "diploma_number",
          "public_name": "Diploma Number",
          "semantics": "amount"
        }
      ],
      "features_name": [
        "date",
        "university_name",
        "graduate_name",
        "major",
        "diploma_number"
      ]
    }
  }
}
  1. Click on Upload a JSON config.
  2. The data model will be automatically filled.
  3. Click on Create API at the bottom of the screen.

Document Data Model filled

Manually Add Data

Using the interface, you can manually add each field for the data you are extracting. For this example, here are the different field configurations used:

  • Date: in European format
  • University name: String which contains both numeric and alpha characters
  • Graduate name: A name never contains numeric characters
  • Major: String which only contains alpha characters
  • Diploma number: Amount

Once you’re done setting up your data model, click the Create API button at the bottom of the screen.

Document Data Model filled

Train Your Diploma OCR

You’re all set! Now is time to train your Diploma deep learning model in the Training section of our API.
Train your model

  1. Upload one file at a time or a zip bundle of many files.
  2. Click on the field input on the right, and the blue box on the left highlights all the corresponding field candidates in the document.
  3. Next, click on the validate arrow for all the field inputs.
  4. Once you have selected the proper box(es) for each of your fields as displayed on the right-hand side, click on the validate button located at the right-side bottom to send an annotation for the model you have created.
  5. Repeat this process until you have trained 20 documents to create a trained model.

To get more information about the training phase, please refer to the Getting Started tutorial.

 

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