AI & AUT EXPO

"Exhibition for Local, Regional and European Technology and Innovation"
It was held in Budapest at the Hungarian Railway Museum, 14-15 February 2023

My aim was to get a glimpse of the state and level of the Hungarian companies and Universities in regard of AI and automation topics. Also to meet people working in the domain of optical character recognition (OCR) based automated image processing to push a bit on my project with the extraction of data that I would need for production resource lists (recipies) to import into our ERP system.

I had the chance to meet a lot of people and to discuss details of ongoing developments ... not only those connected to my first aim, but as I am a curious man I tried to discover and understand almost all applications that has been presented by talk or by someone at a booth. Sometimes I felt that I could inspire the develepers/researchers by my viewpoints and thoughts or even I would be happy to join their team. 

Automatized object(ion) recognition softwares built-in different cars, Machine Learning based systems for Autonomous Driving, Medical Text and MRI Image processing, other healthcare related topics, autonomous drones for the transportation of the future, Large Language Models, speech recognition softwares and much more were the topics of the conference.

I felt some "AI vibe" while being there. I am happy that I could attend the lectures and that I could get some useful tricks in my question as well.

I will check further OCR based AI models, for example Google tesseract or the python version of it (pythesseract) and will also try to find some API (if possible python based) that could give better results on data extraction compared to those softwares that I have already checked in the previous months.