r""" Shi, Baoguang, Xiang Bai, and Cong Yao. "An end-to-end trainable neural network for image-based sequence recognition and its application to scene text recognition." IEEE transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 39, no. 11 (2016): 2298-2304. https://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05717 All source files, except `system.py`, are based on the implementation listed below, and hence are released under the license of the original. Source: https://github.com/meijieru/crnn.pytorch License: MIT License (see included LICENSE file) """