pbnewron / aadhaar_masker

Complete portable pipeline for masking of Aadhaar Number adhering to Govt. Privacy Guidelines.

Aadhaar Number Masking Pipeline

Implementation of a complete pipeline that masks the Aadhaar Number in given images to adhere to Govt. of India's Privacy Guidelines for storage of Aadhaar Card images in digital repository. The following project was carried out as an internship for Muthoot Finance. We make use of the open source packages CRAFT text detector | Paper | Pretrained Model | Github Repo provided by Clova AI Research for OSD and combine a heurestic model with pytesseract OCR for masking.

Rohit Ranjan, Ram Sundaram.

Sample Results

Getting started

Install dependencies

Requirements

• torch
• opencv-python
• tesseract-ocr
• check requirements.txt

pip install -r requirements.txt

Test instructions

• Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/thefurorjuror/Aadhaar_Masker.git

• Run on an image folder

python [folder path to the cloned repo]/masker.py --test_folder=[folder path to test images] --output-folder=[folder path to output images] --cuda=[True/False]
#Example- When one is inside the cloned repo
python masker.py --test_folder=./images/ --output-folder=./output/ --cuda=True

cuda is set to False by default.

Citation

@inproceedings{baek2019character,
  title={Character Region Awareness for Text Detection},
  author={Baek, Youngmin and Lee, Bado and Han, Dongyoon and Yun, Sangdoo and Lee, Hwalsuk},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages={9365--9374},
  year={2019}
}

License

Copyright (c) 2021-present Rohit Ranjan & Ram Sundaram.

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