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However, traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology struggles to meet the accuracy and real-time demands of complex logistics scenarios due to challenges such as image distortion, uneven illumination, and field overlap. This paper proposes a three-level collaborative recognition method based on deep learning that facilitates structured information extraction through regional normalization, dual-path parallel extraction, and a dynamic matching mechanism. First, the geometric distortion associated with contour detection and the lightweight direction classification model has been improved. Second, by integrating the enhanced YOLOv5s for key area localization with the upgraded PaddleOCR for full-text character extraction, a dual-path parallel architecture for positioning and recognition has been constructed. Finally, a dynamic space\u2013semantic joint matching module has been designed that incorporates anti-offset IoU metrics and hierarchical semantic regularization constraints, thereby enhancing matching robustness through density-adaptive weight adjustment. Experimental results indicate that the accuracy of this method on a self-constructed dataset is 89.5%, with an F1 score of 90.1%, representing a 24.2% improvement over traditional OCR methods. The dynamic matching mechanism elevates the average accuracy of YOLOv5s from 78.5% to 89.7%, surpassing the Faster R-CNN benchmark model while maintaining a real-time processing efficiency of 76 FPS. 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