The invention provides a mechanical water meter
automatic meter reading method based on a
deep learning OCR model, and belongs to the technical field of water meter
automatic meter reading, and the method comprises the following steps: collecting and marking mechanical water meter pictures, and forming a
data set; a mechanical water meter character detection model, a mechanical water meter character direction judgment model and a mechanical water meter
character recognition model are constructed, and the
data set is used for training; obtaining a mechanical water meter picture needing to be read, sequentially inputting the mechanical water meter character detection model, the water meter character direction judgment model and the mechanical water meter
character recognition model, and finally obtaining a meter reading number by determining a meter reading area position and a character direction. According to the method,
automatic meter reading of the mechanical water meter is realized, the positioning precision of a meter reading area is improved, the
processing speed is high, the problem of large
identification error caused by diversity of shooting angles of compatible water meter pictures by identifying character directions is solved, a half-character mapping rule of a reading
label is introduced, the interference of half characters on the identification precision of full characters is avoided, and the character identification precision is improved.