Key (lock)

Multimedia

Human–computer interaction

Operating system

Image (mathematics)

Software deployment

The Internet

World Wide Web

Software engineering

Artificial intelligence

Data science

Computer science

Social media

Process (computing)

Computer security

Scalability

Optical character recognition

Upload

Database

In this paper we present a deployed, scalable optical character recognition (OCR) system, which we call Rosetta , designed to process images uploaded daily at Facebook scale. Sharing of image content has become one of the primary ways to communicate information among internet users within social networks such as Facebook, and the understanding of such media, including its textual information, is of paramount importance to facilitate search and recommendation applications. We present modeling techniques for efficient detection and recognition of text in images and describe Rosetta 's system architecture. We perform extensive evaluation of presented technologies, explain useful practical approaches to build an OCR system at scale, and provide insightful intuitions as to why and how certain components work based on the lessons learnt during the development and deployment of the system.

Rosetta