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OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that offers comprehensive alphanumeric recognition of handwritten and printed characters at electronic speed by merely scanning the document. Recently, the understanding of visual data has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Atman Mishra , A. Sharath Ram , Kavyashree C

This research paper introduces a novel word-level Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model specifically designed for digital Urdu text, leveraging transformer-based architectures and attention mechanisms to address the distinct challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Muhammad Ijlal Baig , Hasan Sajid , Muhammad Jawad Khan , Karam Dad Kallu

This paper introduces PreP-OCR, a two-stage pipeline that combines document image restoration with semantic-aware post-OCR correction to enhance both visual clarity and textual consistency, thereby improving text extraction from degraded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shuhao Guan , Moule Lin , Cheng Xu , Xinyi Liu , Jinman Zhao , Jiexin Fan , Qi Xu , Derek Greene

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a widely used pattern recognition application in numerous domains. There are several feature-rich, general-purpose OCR solutions available for consumers, which can provide moderate to excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ayantha Randika , Nilanjan Ray , Xiao Xiao , Allegra Latimer

Document segmentation is one of the critical phases in machine recognition of any language. Correct segmentation of individual symbols decides the accuracy of character recognition technique. It is used to decompose image of a sequence of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-07 Vikas J Dongre , Vijay H Mankar

Recognition of document images have important applications in restoring old and classical texts. The problem involves quality improvement before passing it to a properly trained OCR to get accurate recognition of the text. The image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Ram Krishna Pandey , A G Ramakrishnan

Digital camera and mobile document image acquisition are new trends arising in the world of Optical Character Recognition and text detection. In some cases, such process integrates many distortions and produces poorly scanned text or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Abdeslam El Harraj , Naoufal Raissouni

In a world of digitization, optical character recognition holds the automation to written history. Optical character recognition system basically converts printed images into editable texts for better storage and usability. To be completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Abu Saleh Md. Abir , Sanjana Rahman , Samia Ellin , Maisha Farzana , Md Hridoy Manik , Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman

Segmentation of handwritten document images into text lines and words is one of the most significant and challenging tasks in the development of a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system. This paper addresses the automatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Pawan Kumar Singh , Shubham Sinha , Sagnik Pal Chowdhury , Ram Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri

Telugu is a Dravidian language spoken by more than 80 million people worldwide. The optical character recognition (OCR) of the Telugu script has wide ranging applications including education, health-care, administration etc. The beautiful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Chandra Prakash Konkimalla , Manikanta Srikar Yellapragada , Trishal Gayam , Souraj Mandal , Sumohana S. Channappayya

Contrary to popular belief, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) remains a challenging problem when text occurs in unconstrained environments, like natural scenes, due to geometrical distortions, complex backgrounds, and diverse fonts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Marcin Namysl , Iuliu Konya

Text detection and segmentation is an important prerequisite for many content based image analysis tasks. The paper proposes a novel text extraction and character segmentation algorithm using Maximally Stable Extremal Regions as basic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Nitigya Sambyal , Pawanesh Abrol

In language identification, a common first step in natural language processing, we want to automatically determine the language of some input text. Monolingual language identification assumes that the given document is written in one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Tom Kocmi , Ondřej Bojar

Recognition of ancient Tamil characters has always been a challenge for epigraphers. This is primarily because the language has evolved over the several centuries and the character set over this time has both expanded and diversified. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Lalitha Giridhar , Aishwarya Dharani and , Velmathi Guruviah

Language identification is used as the first step in many data collection and crawling efforts because it allows us to sort online text into language-specific buckets. However, many modern languages, such as Konkani, Kashmiri, Punjabi etc.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Milind Agarwal , Joshua Otten , Antonios Anastasopoulos

Retrieving accurate details from documents is a crucial task, especially when handling a combination of scanned images and native digital formats. This document presents a combined framework for text extraction that merges Optical Character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Rasha Sinha , Rekha B S

Detecting manipulations in digital documents is becoming increasingly important for information verification purposes. Due to the proliferation of image editing software, altering key information in documents has become widely accessible.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hailey Joren , Otkrist Gupta , Dan Raviv

We address the problem of predicting similarity between a pair of handwritten document images written by different individuals. This has applications related to matching and mining in image collections containing handwritten content. A…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Praveen Krishnan , C. V. Jawahar

The analysis of historical documents is still a topical issue given the importance of information that can be extracted and also the importance given by the institutions to preserve their heritage. The main idea in order to characterize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Nizar Zaghden , Remy Mullot , Mohamed Adel Alimi

Handwritten character recognition is always a frontier area of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing and there is a large demand for OCR on hand written documents. Even though, sufficient studies have performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 John Jomy , K. V. Pramod , Balakrishnan Kannan