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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

This thesis addresses automatic lexical error recovery and tokenization of corrupt text input. We propose a technique that can automatically correct misspellings, segmentation errors and real-word errors in a unified framework that uses…

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) continues to face accuracy challenges that impact subsequent applications. To address these errors, we explore the utility of OCR confidence scores for enhancing post-OCR error detection. Our study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Arthur Hemmer , Mickaël Coustaty , Nicola Bartolo , Jean-Marc Ogier

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a critical but error-prone stage in digital humanities text pipelines. While OCR correction improves usability for downstream NLP tasks, common workflows often overwrite intermediate decisions,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Haoze Guo , Ziqi Wei

The study investigates the potential of post-OCR models to overcome limitations in OCR models and explores the impact of incorporating glyph embedding on post-OCR correction performance. In this study, we have developed our own post-OCR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Yung-Hsin Chen , Yuli Zhou

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

Conventional optical character recognition (OCR) techniques segmented each character and then recognized. This made them prone to error in character segmentation, and devoid of context to exploit language models. Advances in sequence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shashank Vempati , Nishit Anand , Gaurav Talebailkar , Arpan Garai , Chetan Arora

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

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

There is little to no data available to build natural language processing models for most endangered languages. However, textual data in these languages often exists in formats that are not machine-readable, such as paper books and scanned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Shruti Rijhwani , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

We propose a post-OCR text correction approach for digitising texts in Romanised Sanskrit. Owing to the lack of resources our approach uses OCR models trained for other languages written in Roman. Currently, there exists no dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Amrith Krishna , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Rajesh Shreedhar Bhat , Pawan Goyal

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

This paper proposes a new method, OFA-OCR, to transfer multimodal pretrained models to text recognition. Specifically, we recast text recognition as image captioning and directly transfer a unified vision-language pretrained model to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Junyang Lin , Xuancheng Ren , Yichang Zhang , Gao Liu , Peng Wang , An Yang , Chang Zhou

While OCR has been used in various applications, its output is not always accurate, leading to misfit words. This research work focuses on improving the optical character recognition (OCR) with ML techniques with integration of OCR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Abhishek Bamotra , Phani Krishna Uppala

Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved the field of Document AI, demonstrating remarkable performance on document understanding tasks such as question answering. However, existing approaches primarily…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Gyuho Shim , Seongtae Hong , Heuiseok Lim

Adequate read filtering is critical when processing high-throughput data in marker-gene-based studies. Sequencing errors can cause the mis-clustering of otherwise similar reads, artificially increasing the number of retrieved Operational…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-06-02 Fernando Puente-Sánchez , Jacobo Aguirre , Víctor Parro

Much of the existing linguistic data in many languages of the world is locked away in non-digitized books and documents. Optical character recognition (OCR) can be used to produce digitized text, and previous work has demonstrated the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Shruti Rijhwani , Daisy Rosenblum , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Standard decoding approaches for conditional text generation tasks typically search for an output hypothesis with high model probability, but this may not yield the best hypothesis according to human judgments of quality. Reranking to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Prasann Singhal , Jiacheng Xu , Xi Ye , Greg Durrett

The general trace reconstruction problem seeks to recover an original sequence from its noisy copies independently corrupted by deletions, insertions, and substitutions. This problem arises in applications such as DNA data storage, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-18 Franziska Weindel , Michael Girsch , Reinhard Heckel

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly improved reasoning capabilities, with in-context learning (ICL) emerging as a key technique for adaptation without retraining. While previous works have focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Jongyeop Hyun , Bumsoo Kim