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However, when using objection detection methods to detect the production information of wheelsets, there are situations that affect detection such as character tilting and unfixed position. Therefore, this paper proposes a deep learning-based method for accurately detecting and recognizing tilted character information on railroad wagon wheelsets. It covers three parts. Firstly, we construct a tilted character detection network based on Faster RCNN for generating a wheelset\u2019s character candidate regions. Secondly, we design a tilted character correction network to classify and correct the orientation of flipped characters. Finally, a character recognition network is constructed based on convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN) to realize the task of recognizing a wheelset\u2019s characters. 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