An Offline Image Auditing System for Legacy Meter Reading Systems in Developing Countries: A Machine Learning Approach

Algorithm 1

Novel offline OCR algorithmic approach.

	Input: : set of available meter reading images
	Output: : meter readings in machine-readable form
(1)	for do
(2)	= region of interest/localized box containing meter reading digits by applying Yolov5/
(3)	= detect each classified object in ROI
(4)	sorting_function (DI);
(5)	end for
(6)	Return