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Recognition of handwritten Roman characters and numerals has been extensively studied in the last few decades and its accuracy reached to a satisfactory state. But the same cannot be said while talking about the Devanagari script which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-02 Pawan Kumar Singh , Supratim Das , Ram Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri

The project comes with the technique of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which includes various research sides of computer science. The project is to take a picture of a character and process it up to recognize the image of that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Arkaprabha Basu , M. Sathya

There are many difficulties facing a handwritten Arabic recognition system such as unlimited variation in human handwriting, similarities of distinct character shapes, interconnections of neighbouring characters and their position in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Ahmed Sahlol , Cheng Suen

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting digitized text from images of scanned documents. While OCR systems have already matured in many languages, they still have shortcomings in cursive languages with overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hussein Osman , Karim Zaghw , Mostafa Hazem , Seifeldin Elsehely

This study evaluates four open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems which are Tesseract, EasyOCR, PaddleOCR, and TrOCR on real world food packaging images. The aim is to assess their ability to extract ingredient lists and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mayimunah Nagayi , Alice Khan , Tamryn Frank , Rina Swart , Clement Nyirenda

In this paper, we present an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system specifically designed for the accurate recognition and digitization of Greek polytonic texts. By leveraging the combined strengths of convolutional layers for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Perifanos Konstantinos , Goutsos Dionisis

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on historical printings is a challenging task mainly due to the complexity of the layout and the highly variant typography. Nevertheless, in the last few years great progress has been made in the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Christian Reul , Dennis Christ , Alexander Hartelt , Nico Balbach , Maximilian Wehner , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Christine Grundig , Andreas Büttner , Frank Puppe

Scholars in the humanities rely heavily on ancient manuscripts to study history, religion, and socio-political structures in the past. Many efforts have been devoted to digitizing these precious manuscripts using OCR technology, but most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Queenie Luo , Yung-Sung Chuang

This abstract explores an RNN-based approach to online handwritten recognition problem. Our method uses data from an accelerometer and a gyroscope mounted on a handheld pen-like device to train and run a character pre-diction model. We have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-31 Davit Soselia , Shota Amashukeli , Irakli Koberidze , Levan Shugliashvili

Together with critical editions and translations, commentaries are one of the main genres of publication in literary and textual scholarship, and have a century-long tradition. Yet, the exploitation of thousands of digitized historical…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Matteo Romanello , Sven Najem-Meyer , Bruce Robertson

This paper deals with the task of practical and open source Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) on German medieval manuscripts. We report on our efforts to construct mixed recognition models which can be applied out-of-the-box without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Christian Reul , Stefan Tomasek , Florian Langhanki , Uwe Springmann

Given the ubiquity of handwritten documents in human transactions, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of documents have invaluable practical worth. Optical character recognition is a science that enables to translate various types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jamshed Memon , Maira Sami , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a topic of interest for many years. It is defined as the process of digitizing a document image into its constituent characters. Despite decades of intense research, developing OCR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Noman Islam , Zeeshan Islam , Nazia Noor

The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities aims to digitize its Medieval Latin Dictionary. This dictionary entails record cards referring to lemmas in medieval Latin, a low-resource language. A crucial step of the digitization process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Philipp Koch , Gilary Vera Nuñez , Esteban Garces Arias , Christian Heumann , Matthias Schöffel , Alexander Häberlin , Matthias Aßenmacher

The OpenITI team has achieved Optical Character Recognition (OCR) accuracy rates for classical Arabic-script texts in the high nineties. These numbers are based on our tests of seven different Arabic-script texts of varying quality and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-03-29 Maxim Romanov , Matthew Thomas Miller , Sarah Bowen Savant , Benjamin Kiessling

India is a multi-lingual country where Roman script is often used alongside different Indic scripts in a text document. To develop a script specific handwritten Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, it is therefore necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Ram Sarkar , Nibaran Das , Subhadip Basu , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is crucial to the National Library of Norway's (NLN) digitisation process as it converts scanned documents into machine-readable text. However, for the S\'ami documents in NLN's collection, the OCR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tita Enstad , Trond Trosterud , Marie Iversdatter Røsok , Yngvil Beyer , Marie Roald

For the bachelor project 2021 of Professor Lippert's research group, handwritten entries of historical patient records needed to be digitized using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods. Since the data will be used in the future, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Martin Preiß

This report explores the latest advances in the field of digital document recognition. With the focus on printed document imagery, we discuss the major developments in optical character recognition (OCR) and document image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Eugene Borovikov

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology finds applications in digitizing books and unstructured documents, along with applications in other domains such as mobility statistics, law enforcement, traffic, security systems, etc. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Aishik Rakshit , Samyak Mehta , Anirban Dasgupta