Document AI & OCR

Word Error Rate

The minimum word-level insertion, deletion and substitution count divided by the reference word count. A declared tokenization and normalization policy determines the words being compared. The same edit-based metric can assess document transcriptions, although it is also widely used for speech recognition.

Also called: WER

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