muralimadhu

I have no background in machine learning or computer vision. What I do have is a problem statement. I want to be able to parse and get structured text out of financial documents like W2s and Paystubs. For ex)parse out company name, salary etc from a W2. Off the shelf solutions like AWS Textract doesnt work very well. So far I have only been treating OCR as a blackbox. If I were to build an OCR service myself for a specialized set of financial documents, what theory and tools would I need to learning assuming I have a CS background, but not an ML background? Thanks in advance

Is anyone else worried about the "big one"? Real estate seems to be doing great and the economy, in general, is doing great, and people seem to be either completely ignorant or unperturbed by the earthquake situation. Has anyone thought of leaving the bay area? If yes, where are you planning to go? If not, what are you doing to prevent/control damage? We are thinking of moving out of the bay area and wondering if there are others in the same boat and looking for other places in the country/elsewhere with good tech jobs and less probability of natural calamities.

I have been living in the bay area for over 6 years now, and have worked in small and big companies as a software developer. Although the bay is awesome if you are a developer, San Francisco and the US in general is lagging behind other countries in terms of livability compared to many other countries in Europe. work-life balance takes a hit, health insurance is not free, public commute sucks, education is expensive etc. I have been thinking about moving to Europe to experience the lifestyle there. Many countries in Europe (Vienna, Switzerland, Germany etc) consistently show up in the list of most livable countries in the world published by multiple sources. I am wondering what the best way is to find developer jobs in these countries, and if anyone else out there also is thinking/thought about this