Optical character recognition training data generation for neural networks by parsing page description language jobs

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for training and utilizing an artificial neural network (ANN) are provided. A computing device can receive training documents including text. The computing device can parse the training documents to determine training data items. Each training data item can include a training label related to text within the training documents and location information indicating a location of text related to the training label. An ANN can be trained to recognize text using the training data items and training input that includes the training documents. After training the ANN, a request to predict text in application documents that differ from the training documents can be received. The application documents can include second text. A prediction of the second text can be determined by applying the trained ANN to the application documents. After determining the prediction of the second text, information related to the second text can be provided.