INFERLINK CORP — Department of Commerce SBIR Phase I: 9.5
INFERLINK CORP — SBIR Phase I award from Department of Commerce.
- Amount
- $150,000
- Agency
- Department of Commerce · National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Program / Phase
- SBIR · Phase I
- Topic
- 9.5
- Solicitation
- NOAA-OAR-OAR-TPO-2021-2006702
- NAICS
- —
- Place of performance
- CA
- Period
- 2021-09-01 → 2022-02-28
Description
We propose to develop a system for transcribing semi-structured data, including tables, from handwritten or typed document images. Our objective is to design an end-to-end system that takes document images as inputs and extracts a digital, tabular output. The proposed approach employs a joint reasoning architecture where optical character recognition and structure recognition is combined in a single neural network to achieve high accuracy. In addition, our approach will allow users to rapidly fix any extraction mistakes in a “example-based” manner, so that working as a man-machine team the complete task can be efficiently accomplished, even in cases where the system does not initially produce a perfect result. Our aim is to empower citizen scientists to quickly and easily participate in the extraction process in an intuitive way.