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Video OCR is a technique that can greatly help to locate the topics of interest in video via the automatic extraction and reading of captions and annotations. Text in video can provide key indexing information. Recognizing such text for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Sankirti S. , P. M. Kamade

Over the past decade, machine learning methods have given us driverless cars, voice recognition, effective web search, and a much better understanding of the human genome. Machine learning is so common today that it is used dozens of times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Omer Aydin

There are many difficulties facing a handwritten Arabic recognition system such as unlimited variation in human handwriting, similarities of distinct character shapes, interconnections of neighbouring characters and their position in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Ahmed Sahlol , Cheng Suen

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

Document alignment and registration play a crucial role in numerous real-world applications, such as automated form processing, anomaly detection, and workflow automation. Traditional methods for document alignment rely on image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ross Greer , Alisha Ukani , Katherine Izhikevich , Earlence Fernandes , Stefan Savage , Alex C. Snoeren

Text image super-resolution is a challenging yet open research problem in the computer vision community. In particular, low-resolution images hamper the performance of typical optical character recognition (OCR) systems. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Chao Dong , Ximei Zhu , Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Yu Qiao

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

With the advent of digital optical scanners, a lot of paper-based books, textbooks, magazines, articles, and documents are being transformed into an electronic version that can be manipulated by a computer. For this purpose, OCR, short for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Youssef Bassil , Mohammad Alwani

Optical character recognition (OCR) is crucial for a deeper access to historical collections. OCR needs to account for orthographic variations, typefaces, or language evolution (i.e., new letters, word spellings), as the main source of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Lijun Lyu , Maria Koutraki , Martin Krickl , Besnik Fetahu

Text Recognition is one of the challenging tasks of computer vision with considerable practical interest. Optical character recognition (OCR) enables different applications for automation. This project focuses on word detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ebin Zacharias , Martin Teuchler , Bénédicte Bernier

In this paper, we present an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system specifically designed for the accurate recognition and digitization of Greek polytonic texts. By leveraging the combined strengths of convolutional layers for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Perifanos Konstantinos , Goutsos Dionisis

Some historical and more recent printed documents have been scanned or stored at very low resolutions, such as 60 dpi. Though such scans are relatively easy for humans to read, they still present significant challenges for optical character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Julian D. Gilbey , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

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

English Character Recognition (CR) has been extensively studied in the last half century and progressed to a level, sufficient to produce technology driven applications. But same is not the case for Indian languages which are complicated in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-01-14 V J Dongre , V H Mankar

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a process of converting analogue documents into digital using document images. Currently, many commercial and non-commercial OCR systems exist for both handwritten and printed copies for different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Farisa Benta Safir , Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. F. Mridha , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar , Md. Abdul Hamid

Optical Character Recognition deals in recognition and classification of characters from an image. For the recognition to be accurate, certain topological and geometrical properties are calculated, based on which a character is classified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-11-20 Vivek Shrivastava , Navdeep Sharma

Since the dawn of the computing era, information has been represented digitally so that it can be processed by electronic computers. Paper books and documents were abundant and widely being published at that time; and hence, there was a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Youssef Bassil , Mohammad Alwani

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

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

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