How I built a fully offline ID card OCR, trained on synthetic data
I needed to read KTPs (Indonesian ID cards) for a sign-up form. OCR APIs charge per scan, and when I tried running OCR myself the results were pretty bad :/ So I made my own. The catch is that KTP data is personal data, so I couldn't train on real cards. It turns out synthetic data was enough, and…
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- 2026-11-13 12:59 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
How I built a fully offline ID card OCR, trained on synthetic data
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