Optimizing Text Recognition in Mechanical Drawings: A Comprehensive Approach
The digitalization of engineering drawings is a pivotal step toward automating and improving the efficiency of product design and manufacturing systems (PDMSs). This study presents eDOCr2, a framework that combines traditional OCR and image processing to extract structured information from mechanica...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2025-03-01
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| Series: | Machines |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/13/3/254 |
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| Summary: | The digitalization of engineering drawings is a pivotal step toward automating and improving the efficiency of product design and manufacturing systems (PDMSs). This study presents eDOCr2, a framework that combines traditional OCR and image processing to extract structured information from mechanical drawings. It segments drawings into key elements—such as information blocks, dimensions, and feature control frames—achieving a text recall of 93.75% and a character error rate (CER) below 1% in a benchmark with drawings from different sources. To improve semantic understanding and reasoning, eDOCr2 integrates Vision Language models (Qwen2-VL-7B and GPT-4o) after segmentation to verify, filter, or retrieve information. This integration enables PDMS applications such as automated design validation, quality control, or manufacturing assessment. The code is available on Github. |
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| ISSN: | 2075-1702 |