Automated generation of training data comprising document images and associated label data

Abstract

Techniques are described for automatically, and substantially without human intervention, generating training data where the training data includes a set of training images containing text content and associated label data. Both the training images and the associated label data are automatically generated. The label data that is automatically generated for a training image includes one or more labels identifying locations of one or more text portions within the training image, and for each text portion, a label indicative of the text content in the text portion. By automating both the generation of training images and the generation of associated label data, the techniques described herein are very scalable and repeatable and can be used to generate large amounts of training data, which in turn enables building more reliable and accurate language models.