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Bangla language consists of fifty distinct characters and many compound characters. Several notable studies have been performed to recognize Bangla characters, both handwritten and optical. Our approach uses transfer learning to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Abdul Karim , S M Rafiuddin , Jahidul Islam Razin , Tahira Alam

Handwritten character recognition has been the center of research and a benchmark problem in the sector of pattern recognition and artificial intelligence, and it continues to be a challenging research topic. Due to its enormous application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-09 Akm Ashiquzzaman , Abdul Kawsar Tushar , Md Ashiqur Rahman

The problem of converting images of text into plain text is a widely researched topic in both academia and industry. Arabic handwritten Text Recognation (AHTR) poses additional challenges due to diverse handwriting styles and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Alhossien Waly , Bassant Tarek , Ali Feteha , Rewan Yehia , Gasser Amr , Ahmed Fares

A large number of publications are available for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Significant researches, as well as articles are present for the Latin, Chinese and Japanese scripts. Arabic script is also one of mature script from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Dil Nawaz Hakro , A. Z. Talib , Zeeshan Bhatti , G. N. Moja

Handwritten character recognition is getting popular among researchers because of its possible applications in facilitating technological search engines, social media, recommender systems, etc. The Devanagari script is one of the oldest…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Diksha Mehta , Prateek Mehta

We introduce a new dataset for offline Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) from images of Bangla scripts comprising words, lines, and document-level annotations. The BN-HTRd dataset is based on the BBC Bangla News corpus, meant to act as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Md. Ataur Rahman , Nazifa Tabassum , Mitu Paul , Riya Pal , Mohammad Khairul Islam

State-of-the-art speech recognition systems rely heavily on three basic components: an acoustic model, a pronunciation lexicon and a language model. To build these components, a researcher needs linguistic as well as technical expertise,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-03-06 Haris Bin Zia , Agha Ali Raza , Awais Athar

Human eye can see and read what is written or displayed either in natural handwriting or in printed format. The same work in case the machine does is called handwriting recognition. Handwriting recognition can be broken down into two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-02 K. C. Santosh , E. Iwata

This paper presents a recognition system for handwritten Pashto letters. However, handwritten character recognition is a challenging task. These letters not only differ in shape and style but also vary among individuals. The recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Sulaiman Khan , Hazrat Ali , Zahid Ullah , Nasru Minallah , Shahid Maqsood , Abdul Hafeez

There are a lot of intensive researches on handwritten character recognition (HCR) for almost past four decades. The research has been done on some of popular scripts such as Roman, Arabic, Chinese and Indian. In this paper we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-28 Aini Najwa Azmi , Dewi Nasien , Siti Mariyam Shamsuddin

This paper presents a comparative study for window-based descriptors on the application of Arabic handwritten alphabet recognition. We show a detailed experimental evaluation of different descriptors with several classifiers. The objective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Marwan Torki , Mohamed E. Hussein , Ahmed Elsallamy , Mahmoud Fayyaz , Shehab Yaser

Latin has historically led the state-of-the-art in handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) research. Adapting existing systems from Latin to alpha-syllabary languages is particularly challenging due to a sharp contrast between their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Samiul Alam , Tahsin Reasat , Asif Shahriyar Sushmit , Sadi Mohammad Siddiquee , Fuad Rahman , Mahady Hasan , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun

Handwriting recognition remains challenging for some of the most spoken languages, like Bangla, due to the complexity of line and word segmentation brought by the curvilinear nature of writing and lack of quality datasets. This paper solves…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Sheikh Mohammad Jubaer , Nazifa Tabassum , Md. Ataur Rahman , Mohammad Khairul Islam

Document level Urdu Sentiment Analysis (SA) is a challenging Natural Language Processing (NLP) task as it deals with large documents in a resource-poor language. In large documents, there are ample amounts of words that exhibit different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-30 Ammarah Irum , M. Ali Tahir

Handwriting recognition is a challenging and critical problem in the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning a wide range of domains. In this paper, we focus on the specific issue of recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Saleh Momeni , Bagher BabaAli

Handwritten digit recognition is one of the extensively studied area in machine learning. Apart from the wider research on handwritten digit recognition on MNIST dataset, there are many other research works on various script recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mesay Samuel Gondere , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Durga Prasad Sharma , Randolf Scholz

Urdu, spoken by 230 million people worldwide, lacks dedicated transformer-based language models and curated corpora. While multilingual models provide limited Urdu support, they suffer from poor performance, high computational costs, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Syed Muhammad Ali , Hammad Sajid , Zainab Haider , Ali Muhammad Asad , Haya Fatima , Abdul Samad

Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition (HWR) pose unique challenges due to the cursive and context-sensitive nature of the Arabic script. This study introduces Qalam, a novel foundation model designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Kurdish libraries have many historical publications that were printed back in the early days when printing devices were brought to Kurdistan. Having a good Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to help process these publications and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Blnd Yaseen , Hossein Hassani

Large Language Models (LLMs) are now capable of generating text that closely resembles human writing, making them powerful tools for content creation, but this growing ability has also made it harder to tell whether a piece of text was…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Muhammad Ammar , Hadiya Murad Hadi , Usman Majeed Butt