Training model for English Data

[Bhavik-Ardeshna]

Hi @csxmli2016 

Thank you for creating such a good project!

I want to train this model for English data. I also have some custom LR and HR-paired image data. After reading your paper, I came to know that you are using synthetic data generated by GAN. 

• Can I use my custom data to train the model?

• To train with English data, I have to use only English corpus, right? And, the data generated using text corpus and background image will get stored or not?

• Regarding the model inference and size: To deploy the model of inferencing, do I have to use all the checkpoint files present in the MACRONet release section, or do I only need to use OCR and model checkpoints?

There are some good OCRs, or text recognition, MORAN for English data. I think I can use this model for OCR.

Thank you!