/********************************************************************** * 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 #ifndef TESSERACT_CCMAIN_TESSERACT_CUBE_COMBINER_H #define TESSERACT_CCMAIN_TESSERACT_CUBE_COMBINER_H #include #include #include "pageres.h" namespace tesseract { class CubeObject; class NeuralNet; class CubeRecoContext; class WordAltList; class TesseractCubeCombiner { public: explicit TesseractCubeCombiner(CubeRecoContext *cube_cntxt); virtual ~TesseractCubeCombiner(); // There are 2 public methods for combining the results of tesseract // and cube. Both return the probability that the Tesseract result is // correct. The difference between the two interfaces is in how the // passed-in CubeObject is used. // 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. Both uses may modify the state of the // CubeObject (including the BeamSearch state) with a call to // RecognizeWord(). float CombineResults(WERD_RES *tess_res, CubeObject *cube_obj); // 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 in is a separate instance to be used only by // the combiner. float CombineResults(WERD_RES *tess_res, CubeObject *cube_obj, WordAltList *alt_list); // Public method for computing the combiner features. The agreement // output parameter will be true if both answers are identical, // false otherwise. Modifies the cube_alt_list, so no assumptions // should be made about its state upon return. bool ComputeCombinerFeatures(const std::string &tess_res, int tess_confidence, CubeObject *cube_obj, WordAltList *cube_alt_list, std::vector *features, bool *agreement); // Is the word valid according to Tesseract's language model bool ValidWord(const std::string &str); // Loads the combiner neural network from file, using cube_cntxt_ // to find path. bool LoadCombinerNet(); private: // Normalize a UTF-8 string. Converts the UTF-8 string to UTF32 and optionally // strips punc and/or normalizes case and then converts back std::string NormalizeString(const std::string &str, bool remove_punc, bool norm_case); // Compares 2 strings after optionally normalizing them and or stripping // punctuation int CompareStrings(const std::string &str1, const std::string &str2, bool ignore_punc, bool norm_case); NeuralNet *combiner_net_; // pointer to the combiner NeuralNet object CubeRecoContext *cube_cntxt_; // used for language ID and data paths }; } #endif // TESSERACT_CCMAIN_TESSERACT_CUBE_COMBINER_H