Character Restoration Research

Resources
https://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Letter%2BRecognition
https://github.com/phulin/rebook
https://www.nr.no/~eikvil/OCR.pdf

Blog Posts
https://towardsdatascience.com/image-inpainting-humans-vs-ai-48fc4bca7ecc
https://towardsdatascience.com/deep-learning-based-super-resolution-without-using-a-gan-11c9bb5b6cd5

Mobile apps: OfficeLens, CamScanner

Keywords:
ABBYY FineReader, Tessaract ScanTailor, OpenCV
Super Resolution
Document Restoration
Character segmentation
Image binarization
Character/Word Fragmentation
Descreening documents

Models
GAN, SRGAN

Papers
http://cdn.iiit.ac.in/cdn/cvit.iiit.ac.in/images/ConferencePapers/2018/ocr_Ankit_Lat_ICPR_2018.pdf