Aircraft component identification system

A method of maintaining an aircraft engine, comprising:

• receiving image data of an image of an aircraft component of the aircraft engine, the image being captured with a camera and including a part identifier of the aircraft component;
• performing optical character recognition on the image data to obtain a series of characters of the part identifier by feeding the image data to a trained model, the trained model having been trained using machine learning and training data, the training data including image data sets associated with part identifier sets, the part identifier sets including partially damaged part identifiers, the capturing of the image includes moving the camera and the aircraft component relative to one another until the part identifier is within a line of sight of the camera;
• determining that the aircraft component needs servicing by obtaining information about the aircraft component using the series of characters of the part identifier;
• and
• causing the aircraft component to be serviced.

A method of performing optical character recognition of a part identifier on an aircraft component of an aircraft engine, comprising:

• receiving image data of an image of a part identifier on the aircraft component, the part identifier composed of a series of characters, including capturing an image of the aircraft component using a camera;
• performing optical character recognition on the image data to obtain a series of characters of the part identifier by feeding the image data to a trained model, the trained model having been trained using machine learning and training data, the training data including image data sets associated with part identifier sets, the part identifier sets including partially damaged part identifiers, the capturing of the image includes moving the camera and the aircraft component relative to one another until the part identifier is within a line of sight of the camera;
• and
• displaying the series of characters on a display.