OCR Training Needs to Cover Blank Pages

vanstriendaniel · x · 2026-07-16

The author reminds us that if you are building an OCR model, your training data should include some blank pages, or at least cover them in your evaluations.

The reason is that models are prone to errors when processing inputs with "no text." Including blank pages in data or evaluation helps identify these edge cases earlier, preventing failures in real-world scenarios after deployment.

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