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Thursday, January 24 • 11:15am - 11:45am
Breaking Through Challenges in Industry Series: OCR at Scale at Dropbox

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There are many billions of images in Dropbox.  About 15% of them are photos of documents -- receipts, business cards, contracts, etc. -- with text content that is hidden from our search index.  To allow our users to search for these "documents," Dropbox built an OCR system.  In this talk I'll describe Dropbox's OCR project from its initial, small-scale deployment of a third-party library, through development and large-scale deployment of a homegrown solution using deep networks, focussing on the performance and scaling problems we encountered and solved along the way.
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Thomas Berg, Dropbox

Machine Learning Engineer, Dropbox
Thomas Berg is a Machine Learning Engineer at Dropbox, where he's worked on image classification, OCR, and user activity prediction. He has a PhD from Columbia University, where he worked on face recognition and fine-grained image classification in Peter Belhumeur's lab.

Thursday January 24, 2019 11:15am - 11:45am PST
Pacific I-K Hyatt Regency San Francisco, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, CA 94111, USA
  Industry Applications Stage