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Optical character recognition (OCR) is a vital process that involves the extraction of handwritten or printed text from scanned or printed images, converting it into a format that can be understood and processed by machines. This enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem , Mohamed Mahmoud , Hyun-Soo Kang

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been widely used in various of application scenarios. Designing an OCR system is still a challenging task. In previous work, we proposed a practical ultra lightweight OCR system (PP-OCR) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Yuning Du , Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Cheng Cui , Weiwei Liu , Jun Zhou , Bin Lu , Yehua Yang , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has many real world applications. The existing methods normally detect where the characters are, and then recognize the character for each detected location. Thus the accuracy of characters recognition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Baohua Sun , Michael Lin , Hao Sha , Lin Yang

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

The purpose of this study is to explore the performance of Informed OCR or iOCR. iOCR was developed with a spell correction algorithm to fix errors introduced by conventional OCR for vote tabulation. The results found that the iOCR system…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kenneth U. Oyibo , Jean D. Louis , Juan E. Gilbert

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

A crucial component for the scene text based reasoning required for TextVQA and TextCaps datasets involve detecting and recognizing text present in the images using an optical character recognition (OCR) system. The current systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Amanpreet Singh , Guan Pang , Mandy Toh , Jing Huang , Wojciech Galuba , Tal Hassner

Optical Character Recognition has been a challenging field in the advent of digital computers. It is needed where information is to be readable both to humans and machines. The process of OCR is composed of a set of pre and post processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-04 Chinmay Chinara , Nishant Nath , Subhajeet Mishra , Sangram Keshari Sahoo , Farida Ashraf Ali

The study presented here relies on the integrated use of different kinds of knowledge in order to improve first-guess accuracy in non-word context-sensitive correction for general unrestricted texts. State of the art spelling correction…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 E. Agirre , K. Gojenola , K. Sarasola

This paper presents a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for camera captured image/graphics embedded textual documents for handheld devices. At first, text regions are extracted and skew corrected. Then, these regions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-16 Ayatullah Faruk Mollah , Nabamita Majumder , Subhadip Basu , Mita Nasipuri

Digitization of scanned receipts aims to extract text from receipt images and save it into structured documents. This is usually split into two sub-tasks: text localization and optical character recognition (OCR). Most existing OCR models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hongkuan Zhang , Edward Whittaker , Ikuo Kitagishi

A common use case for OCR applications involves users uploading documents and progressively correcting automatic recognition to obtain the final transcript. This correction phase presents an opportunity for progressive adaptation of the OCR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jan Kohút , Michal Hradiš

The ubiquity of smartphone cameras has led to more and more documents being captured by cameras rather than scanned. Unlike flatbed scanners, photographed documents are often folded and crumpled, resulting in large local variance in text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-06 Amir Markovitz , Inbal Lavi , Or Perel , Shai Mazor , Roee Litman

Text error correction aims to correct the errors in text sequences such as those typed by humans or generated by speech recognition models. Previous error correction methods usually take the source (incorrect) sentence as encoder input and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Kai Shen , Yichong Leng , Xu Tan , Siliang Tang , Yuan Zhang , Wenjie Liu , Edward Lin

Text recognition in the wild is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Driven by end-to-end deep learning, recent studies suggest vision and language processing are effective for scene text recognition. Yet, solving edit errors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Wenwen Yu , Mingyu Liu , Biao Yang , Enming Zhang , Deqiang Jiang , Xing Sun , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the task of extracting textual information from scanned documents is a vital and broadly used technology for digitizing and indexing physical documents. Existing technologies perform well for clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Daniel Rotman , Ophir Azulai , Inbar Shapira , Yevgeny Burshtein , Udi Barzelay

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of eighteenth-century printed texts remains challenging due to degraded print quality, archaic glyphs, and non-standardized orthography. Although transformer-based OCR systems and Vision-Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ari Vesalainen , Eetu Mäkelä , Laura Ruotsalainen , Mikko Tolonen

Language representations are known to carry stereotypical biases and, as a result, lead to biased predictions in downstream tasks. While existing methods are effective at mitigating biases by linear projection, such methods are too…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Sunipa Dev , Tao Li , Jeff M Phillips , Vivek Srikumar

Correction of Noisy Natural Language Text is an important and well studied problem in Natural Language Processing. It has a number of applications in domains like Statistical Machine Translation, Second Language Learning and Natural…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2016-11-25 Diptesh Chatterhee

Optical character recognition (OCR) for historical documents is a complex procedure subject to a unique set of material issues, including inconsistencies in typefaces and low quality scanning. Consequently, even the most sophisticated OCR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Alberto Poncelas , Mohammad Aboomar , Jan Buts , James Hadley , Andy Way