/********************************************************************** * File: tesseract_cube_combiner.h * Description: Declaration of the Tesseract & Cube results combiner Class * Author: Ahmad Abdulkader * Created: 2008 * * (C) Copyright 2008, Google Inc. ** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); ** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. ** You may obtain a copy of the License at ** http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 ** Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software ** distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, ** WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. ** See the License for the specific language governing permissions and ** limitations under the License. * **********************************************************************/ // The TesseractCubeCombiner class provides the functionality of combining // the recognition results of Tesseract and Cube at the word level #include #include #include #include #include "tesseract_cube_combiner.h" #include "cube_object.h" #include "cube_reco_context.h" #include "cube_utils.h" #include "neural_net.h" #include "tesseractclass.h" #include "word_altlist.h" namespace tesseract { TesseractCubeCombiner::TesseractCubeCombiner(CubeRecoContext *cube_cntxt) { cube_cntxt_ = cube_cntxt; combiner_net_ = NULL; } TesseractCubeCombiner::~TesseractCubeCombiner() { if (combiner_net_ != NULL) { delete combiner_net_; combiner_net_ = NULL; } } bool TesseractCubeCombiner::LoadCombinerNet() { ASSERT_HOST(cube_cntxt_); // Compute the path of the combiner net string data_path; cube_cntxt_->GetDataFilePath(&data_path); string net_file_name = data_path + cube_cntxt_->Lang() + ".tesseract_cube.nn"; // Return false if file does not exist FILE *fp = fopen(net_file_name.c_str(), "r"); if (fp == NULL) return false; else fclose(fp); // Load and validate net combiner_net_ = NeuralNet::FromFile(net_file_name); if (combiner_net_ == NULL) { tprintf("Could not read combiner net file %s", net_file_name.c_str()); return false; } else if (combiner_net_->out_cnt() != 2) { tprintf("Invalid combiner net file %s! Output count != 2\n", net_file_name.c_str()); delete combiner_net_; combiner_net_ = NULL; return false; } return true; } // Normalize a UTF-8 string. Converts the UTF-8 string to UTF32 and optionally // strips punc and/or normalizes case and then converts back string TesseractCubeCombiner::NormalizeString(const string &str, bool remove_punc, bool norm_case) { // convert to UTF32 string_32 str32; CubeUtils::UTF8ToUTF32(str.c_str(), &str32); // strip punc and normalize string_32 new_str32; for (int idx = 0; idx < str32.length(); idx++) { // if no punc removal is required or not a punctuation character if (!remove_punc || iswpunct(str32[idx]) == 0) { char_32 norm_char = str32[idx]; // normalize case if required if (norm_case && iswalpha(norm_char)) { norm_char = towlower(norm_char); } new_str32.push_back(norm_char); } } // convert back to UTF8 string new_str; CubeUtils::UTF32ToUTF8(new_str32.c_str(), &new_str); return new_str; } // Compares 2 strings optionally ignoring punctuation int TesseractCubeCombiner::CompareStrings(const string &str1, const string &str2, bool ignore_punc, bool ignore_case) { if (!ignore_punc && !ignore_case) { return str1.compare(str2); } string norm_str1 = NormalizeString(str1, ignore_punc, ignore_case); string norm_str2 = NormalizeString(str2, ignore_punc, ignore_case); return norm_str1.compare(norm_str2); } // Check if a string is a valid Tess dict word or not bool TesseractCubeCombiner::ValidWord(const string &str) { return (cube_cntxt_->TesseractObject()->getDict().valid_word(str.c_str()) > 0); } // Public method for computing the combiner features. The agreement // output parameter will be true if both answers are identical, // and false otherwise. bool TesseractCubeCombiner::ComputeCombinerFeatures(const string &tess_str, int tess_confidence, CubeObject *cube_obj, WordAltList *cube_alt_list, vector *features, bool *agreement) { features->clear(); *agreement = false; if (cube_alt_list == NULL || cube_alt_list->AltCount() <= 0) return false; // Get Cube's best string; return false if empty char_32 *cube_best_str32 = cube_alt_list->Alt(0); if (cube_best_str32 == NULL || CubeUtils::StrLen(cube_best_str32) < 1) return false; string cube_best_str; int cube_best_cost = cube_alt_list->AltCost(0); int cube_best_bigram_cost = 0; bool cube_best_bigram_cost_valid = true; if (cube_cntxt_->Bigrams()) cube_best_bigram_cost = cube_cntxt_->Bigrams()-> Cost(cube_best_str32, cube_cntxt_->CharacterSet(), &cube_cntxt_->TesseractObject()->unicharset); else cube_best_bigram_cost_valid = false; CubeUtils::UTF32ToUTF8(cube_best_str32, &cube_best_str); // Get Tesseract's UTF32 string string_32 tess_str32; CubeUtils::UTF8ToUTF32(tess_str.c_str(), &tess_str32); // Compute agreement flag *agreement = (tess_str.compare(cube_best_str) == 0); // Get Cube's second best string; if empty, return false char_32 *cube_next_best_str32; string cube_next_best_str; int cube_next_best_cost = WORST_COST; if (cube_alt_list->AltCount() > 1) { cube_next_best_str32 = cube_alt_list->Alt(1); if (cube_next_best_str32 == NULL || CubeUtils::StrLen(cube_next_best_str32) == 0) { return false; } cube_next_best_cost = cube_alt_list->AltCost(1); CubeUtils::UTF32ToUTF8(cube_next_best_str32, &cube_next_best_str); } // Rank of Tesseract's top result in Cube's alternate list int tess_rank = 0; for (tess_rank = 0; tess_rank < cube_alt_list->AltCount(); tess_rank++) { string alt_str; CubeUtils::UTF32ToUTF8(cube_alt_list->Alt(tess_rank), &alt_str); if (alt_str == tess_str) break; } // Cube's cost for tesseract's result. Note that this modifies the // state of cube_obj, including its alternate list by calling RecognizeWord() int tess_cost = cube_obj->WordCost(tess_str.c_str()); // Cube's bigram cost of Tesseract's string int tess_bigram_cost = 0; int tess_bigram_cost_valid = true; if (cube_cntxt_->Bigrams()) tess_bigram_cost = cube_cntxt_->Bigrams()-> Cost(tess_str32.c_str(), cube_cntxt_->CharacterSet(), &cube_cntxt_->TesseractObject()->unicharset); else tess_bigram_cost_valid = false; // Tesseract confidence features->push_back(tess_confidence); // Cube cost of Tesseract string features->push_back(tess_cost); // Cube Rank of Tesseract string features->push_back(tess_rank); // length of Tesseract OCR string features->push_back(tess_str.length()); // Tesseract OCR string in dictionary features->push_back(ValidWord(tess_str)); if (tess_bigram_cost_valid) { // bigram cost of Tesseract string features->push_back(tess_bigram_cost); } // Cube tess_cost of Cube best string features->push_back(cube_best_cost); // Cube tess_cost of Cube next best string features->push_back(cube_next_best_cost); // length of Cube string features->push_back(cube_best_str.length()); // Cube string in dictionary features->push_back(ValidWord(cube_best_str)); if (cube_best_bigram_cost_valid) { // bigram cost of Cube string features->push_back(cube_best_bigram_cost); } // case-insensitive string comparison, including punctuation int compare_nocase_punc = CompareStrings(cube_best_str.c_str(), tess_str.c_str(), false, true); features->push_back(compare_nocase_punc == 0); // case-sensitive string comparison, ignoring punctuation int compare_case_nopunc = CompareStrings(cube_best_str.c_str(), tess_str.c_str(), true, false); features->push_back(compare_case_nopunc == 0); // case-insensitive string comparison, ignoring punctuation int compare_nocase_nopunc = CompareStrings(cube_best_str.c_str(), tess_str.c_str(), true, true); features->push_back(compare_nocase_nopunc == 0); return true; } // The CubeObject parameter is used for 2 purposes: 1) to retrieve // cube's alt list, and 2) to compute cube's word cost for the // tesseract result. The call to CubeObject::WordCost() modifies // the object's alternate list, so previous state will be lost. float TesseractCubeCombiner::CombineResults(WERD_RES *tess_res, CubeObject *cube_obj) { // If no combiner is loaded or the cube object is undefined, // tesseract wins with probability 1.0 if (combiner_net_ == NULL || cube_obj == NULL) { tprintf("Cube WARNING (TesseractCubeCombiner::CombineResults): " "Cube objects not initialized; defaulting to Tesseract\n"); return 1.0; } // Retrieve the alternate list from the CubeObject's current state. // If the alt list empty, tesseract wins with probability 1.0 WordAltList *cube_alt_list = cube_obj->AlternateList(); if (cube_alt_list == NULL) cube_alt_list = cube_obj->RecognizeWord(); if (cube_alt_list == NULL || cube_alt_list->AltCount() <= 0) { tprintf("Cube WARNING (TesseractCubeCombiner::CombineResults): " "Cube returned no results; defaulting to Tesseract\n"); return 1.0; } return CombineResults(tess_res, cube_obj, cube_alt_list); } // The alt_list parameter is expected to have been extracted from the // CubeObject that recognized the word to be combined. The cube_obj // parameter passed may be either same instance or a separate instance to // be used only by the combiner. In both cases, its alternate // list will be modified by an internal call to RecognizeWord(). float TesseractCubeCombiner::CombineResults(WERD_RES *tess_res, CubeObject *cube_obj, WordAltList *cube_alt_list) { // If no combiner is loaded or the cube object is undefined, or the // alt list is empty, tesseract wins with probability 1.0 if (combiner_net_ == NULL || cube_obj == NULL || cube_alt_list == NULL || cube_alt_list->AltCount() <= 0) { tprintf("Cube WARNING (TesseractCubeCombiner::CombineResults): " "Cube result cannot be retrieved; defaulting to Tesseract\n"); return 1.0; } // Tesseract result string, tesseract confidence, and cost of // tesseract result according to cube string tess_str = tess_res->best_choice->unichar_string().string(); // Map certainty [-20.0, 0.0] to confidence [0, 100] int tess_confidence = MIN(100, MAX(1, static_cast( 100 + (5 * tess_res->best_choice->certainty())))); // Compute the combiner features. If feature computation fails or // answers are identical, tesseract wins with probability 1.0 vector features; bool agreement; bool combiner_success = ComputeCombinerFeatures(tess_str, tess_confidence, cube_obj, cube_alt_list, &features, &agreement); if (!combiner_success || agreement) return 1.0; // Classify combiner feature vector and return output (probability // of tesseract class). double net_out[2]; if (!combiner_net_->FeedForward(&features[0], net_out)) return 1.0; return net_out[1]; } }