Chapter 12

A Neural Network to Recognize Passports

“In math, you’re either right or you’re wrong.”

—Katherine Johnson

Most of the hype around AI refers to making some common operations simpler and faster. It’s about automating chores and reducing the number of manual steps required to accomplish a task. One of the plusses of AI is just in simplifying and streamlining workflows obtaining the same results with less effort and more error-prone actions from human operators.

In this final chapter, we just aim at illustrating one of these scenarios: a canonical array of form fields automatically filled by some smarter-than-usual software. The specific scenario we’ll address in the chapter is a registration form that requires users to upload a passport ...

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