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Jul 27, 2023 · Artificial Intelligence

Implementing Text‑Based Image Search Using OCR, Transformers, and Vector Databases

This article explains how to build a text‑to‑image search system by first extracting text with OCR, then storing image paths and textual embeddings in a SQLite or Milvus vector database, and finally improving retrieval with Transformer‑based sentence embeddings and image‑captioning models.