Have you used BLEU to evaluate your PDF data pipeline? Share your scores and horror stories in the comments below Need to calculate BLEU for your PDFs? Check out nltk for Python or evaluate by Hugging Face.
Here is how you calculate the BLEU score using Python's nltk library: bleu pdf
Your OCR software extracted: "The quick brown fox jumps over the dog." Have you used BLEU to evaluate your PDF data pipeline
In this post, we will break down what BLEU is, how it works mathematically, and—most importantly—how to use it to validate the accuracy of text extracted or translated from PDF files. BLEU is an algorithm for evaluating the quality of text that has been machine-translated or generated from one language to another (or one format to another). Quality is defined as the similarity between the machine's output and that of a human. Here is how you calculate the BLEU score