BCER (best character rate) is automatically picked by tesseract from all 
list of  character rates errors (CER). 

On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 12:34:40 PM UTC+3 Des Bw wrote:

> I think they are abbreviations: 
> best char error =BCER
> character error = CER
>
> There is no signs to tell if the model is overfit. I know no diagnostics 
> for that. For fine-tuning, running iterations higher than 400 is always 
> problematic because it destroys the base model. 
>
> - So, the common strategy is to increase your data; and run just 300 
> iterations. The BCER is not that important in that case. 
> But, for training from scratch or from layer (network), you should try to 
> get the BCER (error rate) as low as possible. Overfitting happens when the 
> data is too small, and the iterations are too many. From my experience, 
> running 2-5 epochs seems to generate good results. But, I have seen 
> experienced guys training for hundred even thousands of epochs. 
>
>
> On Thursday, November 23, 2023 at 12:28:35 PM UTC+3 [email protected] 
> wrote:
>
>> Alright, 
>>
>> this might be a litte bit of a dump question but where exactly can I see 
>> the CER?
>>
>> 2 Percent improvement time=56, best error was 12.49 @ 8294
>> At iteration 8350/10000/10000, Mean rms=2.701%, delta=2.491%, char 
>> train=10.385%, word train=24.4%, skip ratio=0%,  New best char error = 
>> 10.385 wrote best 
>> model:data/Common_num/checkpoints/Common_num10.385_8350.checkpoint wrote 
>> checkpoint.
>>
>> Is it the "best char error"? Where do I have to look to find CER? Is the 
>> CER in the above example?
>>
>> Also what are signs that my model is overfitted? Is there any possibility 
>> recognicing this in the above statement?
>>
>>

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