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Recognizing fonts has become an important task in document analysis, due to the increasing number of available digital documents in different fonts and emphases. A generic font-recognition system independent of language, script and content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-07-11 Alican Bozkurt , Pinar Duygulu , A. Enis Cetin

The analysis of historical documents is still a topical issue given the importance of information that can be extracted and also the importance given by the institutions to preserve their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 text recognition and optical character recognition solutions show excellent results with processing data of modern era, but efficiency drops with Latin documents of medieval times. This paper presents a deep learning method to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Maksym Voloshchuk , Bohdana Zarembovska , Mykola Kozlenko

In this paper, we investigate the usage of fine-grained font recognition on OCR for books printed from the 15th to the 18th century. We used a newly created dataset for OCR of early printed books for which fonts are labeled with bounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Mathias Seuret , Janne van der Loop , Nikolaus Weichselbaumer , Martin Mayr , Janina Molnar , Tatjana Hass , Florian Kordon , Anguelos Nicolau , Vincent Christlein

Social scientists often classify text documents to use the resulting labels as an outcome or a predictor in empirical research. Automated text classification has become a standard tool, since it requires less human coding. However, scholars…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Mitchell Bosley , Saki Kuzushima , Ted Enamorado , Yuki Shiraito

Language identification describes the task of recognizing the language of written text in documents. This information is crucial because it can be used to support the analysis of a document's vocabulary and context. Supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Furkan Simsek , Brian Pfitzmann , Hendrik Raetz , Jona Otholt , Haojin Yang , Christoph Meinel

The font recognition and character extraction is of immense importance as these are many scenarios where data are in such a form, which cannot be processed like in image form or as a hard copy. So the procedure developed in this paper is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Syed Muhammad Arsalan Bashir

The paper introduces a new method for discrimination of documents given in different scripts. The document is mapped into a uniformly coded text of numerical values. It is derived from the position of the letters in the text line, based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-22 Darko Brodic , Alessia Amelio , Zoran N. Milivojevic , Milena Jevtic

Automatic detection of font size finds many applications in the area of intelligent OCRing and document image analysis, which has been traditionally practiced over uncompressed documents, although in real life the documents exist in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Mohammed Javed , P. Nagabhushan , B. B. Chaudhuri

There are a countless number of fonts with various shapes and styles. In addition, there are many fonts that only have subtle differences in features. Due to this, font identification is a difficult task. In this paper, we propose a method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-27 Daichi Haraguchi , Shota Harada , Brian Kenji Iwana , Yuto Shinahara , Seiichi Uchida

In order to apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to historical printings of Latin script fully automatically, we report on our efforts to construct a widely-applicable polyfont recognition model yielding text with a Character Error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Christian Reul , Christoph Wick , Maximilian Nöth , Andreas Büttner , Maximilian Wehner , Uwe Springmann

Classifying pages or text lines into font categories aids transcription because single font Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is generally more accurate than omni-font OCR. We present a simple framework based on Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Chris Tensmeyer , Daniel Saunders , Tony Martinez

The transcription of historical documents written in Latin in XV and XVI centuries has special challenges as it must maintain the characters and special symbols that have distinct meanings to ensure that historical texts retain their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 H Neji , J Nogueras-Iso , J Lacasta , MÁ Latre , FJ García-Marco

Thousands of users consult digital archives daily, but the information they can access is unrepresentative of the diversity of documentary history. The sequence-to-sequence architecture typically used for optical character recognition (OCR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jacob Carlson , Tom Bryan , Melissa Dell

This paper deals with the recognition and matching of text in both cartographic maps and ancient documents. The purpose of this work is to find similar text regions based on statistical and global features. A phase of normalization is done…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Nizar Zaghden , Badreddine Khelifi , Adel M. Alimi , Remy Mullot

This paper presents a deep learning approach for image retrieval and pattern spotting in digital collections of historical documents. First, a region proposal algorithm detects object candidates in the document page images. Next, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-05 Caio da S. Dias , Alceu de S. Britto , Jean P. Barddal , Laurent Heutte , Alessandro L. Koerich

In this paper, we consider the problem of detecting counterfeit identity documents in images captured with smartphones. As the number of documents contain special fonts, we study the applicability of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Yulia S. Chernyshova , Mikhail A. Aliev , Ekaterina S. Gushchanskaia , Alexander V. Sheshkus

Vast volumes of printed documents continue to be used for various important as well as trivial applications. Such applications often rely on the information provided in the form of printed text documents whose integrity verification poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Sharad Joshi , Suraj Saxena , Nitin Khanna

The digital revolution has replaced the use of printed documents with their digital counterparts. However, many applications require the use of both due to several factors, including challenges of digital security, installation costs, ease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-24 Sharad Joshi , Yogesh Kumar Gupta , Nitin Khanna

This paper presents a novel task of extracting low-resourced and noisy Latin fragments from mixed-language historical documents with varied layouts. We benchmark and evaluate the performance of large foundation models against a multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Yu Wu , Ke Shu , Jonas Fischer , Lidia Pivovarova , David Rosson , Eetu Mäkelä , Mikko Tolonen
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