import streamlit as st
from pathlib import Path
from layout import gray_container, tool_container, key_concept, research_question
def render():
"""Module 3: OCR Technology and Historical Documents"""
st.title("Module 3: OCR Technology and Historical Documents")
col1, col2 = st.columns([1, 1])
with col1:
traditional_content = """
Traditional OCR Approaches
- Pattern Matching: Early OCR compared characters to templates
- Feature Extraction: Identifying key features of characters
- Statistical Models: Using probabilities to improve recognition
"""
gray_container(traditional_content)
modern_content = """
Modern AI-Enhanced OCR
- Neural Networks: Deep learning models trained on vast datasets
- Computer Vision: Advanced image processing techniques
- Language Models: Contextual understanding to resolve ambiguities
- Multimodal Models: Integration of text, layout, and visual understanding
"""
gray_container(modern_content)
with col2:
challenges_content = """
Challenges with Historical Documents
Historical materials present unique difficulties:
- Typography Variation: Non-standardized fonts and styles
- Historical Language: Archaic vocabulary and grammar
- Layout Complexity: Non-linear arrangements
- Document Degradation: Fading, tears, stains, and damage
- Material Artifacts: Paper texture, binding shadows, etc.
"""
gray_container(challenges_content)
# Display OCR processing diagram
st.image("https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/412119/screenshots/16353886/media/82e593c60a5e4d460db917236eab6ece.jpg",
caption="OCR processing layers")
# Key concept section
concept_content = """
Vision-Enhanced OCR
Modern OCR systems like those based on Mistral-7B-Vision combine:
- Image understanding capabilities to process the visual aspects
- Text recognition to extract characters accurately
- Layout analysis to understand structure
- Contextual language processing for improved accuracy
This multimodal approach dramatically improves OCR results on historical documents compared to traditional OCR.
"""
key_concept(concept_content)
# Technical details in a tool container
tech_content = """
Technical Evolution of OCR
Traditional OCR Pipeline:
- Preprocessing (binarization, noise removal)
- Layout analysis (segmentation)
- Character recognition (pattern matching)
- Post-processing (spell checking)
Modern LLM-Vision Pipeline:
- Image normalization
- Image embedding via vision encoder
- Integration with language model
- Joint inference across modalities
- Structured extraction of information
"""
tool_container(tech_content)
# Research question
research_content = """
Consider This:
How might the capabilities of vision-language models change our approach to digitizing historical archives?
"""
research_question(research_content)
# Display history if available
if 'processing_history' in st.session_state and st.session_state.processing_history:
with st.expander("Your OCR Processing History"):
st.markdown("You've already processed the following documents:")
for item in st.session_state.processing_history:
st.markdown(f"**{item['fileName']}**")
col1, col2 = st.columns(2)
with col1:
st.write(f"**Topics:** {', '.join(item['result'].get('topics', ['Unknown']))}")
with col2:
st.write(f"**Vision model used:** {'Yes' if item['useVision'] else 'No'}")