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To improve the accuracy and robustness of character detection, this paper proposes an enhanced character detection algorithm based on the DBNet framework, named EBiDNet (EfficientNetV2 and BiFPN Enhanced DBNet). This algorithm integrates machine vision with deep learning techniques and introduces the following architectural optimizations. It employs EfficientNetV2-S, a lightweight, high-performance backbone network, to enhance feature extraction capability. Meanwhile, a bidirectional feature pyramid network (BiFPN) is introduced. Its distinctive symmetric design ensures balanced feature propagation in both top-down and bottom-up directions, thereby enabling more efficient multiscale contextual information fusion. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared with the original DBNet, the proposed EBiDNet achieves a 9.13% increase in precision and a 14.17% improvement in F1-score, while reducing the number of parameters by 17.96%. 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