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Extracting fine-grained OCR text from aged documents in diacritic languages remains challenging due to unexpected artifacts, time-induced degradation, and lack of datasets. While standalone spell correction approaches have been proposed,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Thao Do , Dinh Phu Tran , An Vo , Daeyoung Kim

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

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) 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

In this paper I have proposed a method to find the major pixel intensity inside the text and thresholding an image accordingly to make it easier to be used for optical character recognition (OCR) models. In our method, instead of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Rohan Lal Kshetry

Optical character recognition (OCR) methods have been applied to diverse tasks, e.g., street view text recognition and document analysis. Recently, zero-shot OCR has piqued the interest of the research community because it considers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Xiaolei Diao , Daqian Shi , Jian Li , Lida Shi , Mingzhe Yue , Ruihua Qi , Chuntao Li , Hao Xu

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 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 rapid development of OCR technology, mixed-scene text recognition has become a key technical challenge. Although deep learning models have achieved significant results in specific scenarios, their generality and stability still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Da Chang , Yu Li

OCR errors are common in digitised historical archives significantly affecting their usability and value. Generative Language Models (LMs) have shown potential for correcting these errors using the context provided by the corrupted text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jonathan Bourne

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting digitized text from images of scanned documents. While OCR systems have already matured in many languages, they still have shortcomings in cursive languages with overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hussein Osman , Karim Zaghw , Mostafa Hazem , Seifeldin Elsehely

In this paper we evaluate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of 19th century Fraktur scripts without book-specific training using mixed models, i.e. models trained to recognize a variety of fonts and typesets from previously unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Christian Reul , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Frank Puppe

Over the past few decades, large archives of paper-based documents such as books and newspapers have been digitized using Optical Character Recognition. This technology is error-prone, especially for historical documents. To correct OCR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Omri Suissa , Avshalom Elmalech , Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet

Reading text from images or scanned documents via OCR models has been a longstanding focus of researchers. Intuitively, text reading is perceived as a straightforward perceptual task, and existing work primarily focuses on constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Yufeng Zhong , Lei Chen , Zhixiong Zeng , Xuanle Zhao , Deyang Jiang , Liming Zheng , Jing Huang , Haibo Qiu , Peng Shi , Siqi Yang , Lin Ma

To automatically correct handwritten assignments, the traditional approach is to use an OCR model to recognize characters and compare them to answers. The OCR model easily gets confused on recognizing handwritten Chinese characters, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Yusen Zhang , Zhongli Li , Qingyu Zhou , Ziyi Liu , Chao Li , Mina Ma , Yunbo Cao , Hongzhi Liu

Traditionally, the performance of ocr algorithms and systems is based on the recognition of isolated characters. When a system classifies an individual character, its output is typically a character label or a reject marker that corresponds…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-09-08 B. S. Saritha , S. Hemanth

This paper introduces PreP-OCR, a two-stage pipeline that combines document image restoration with semantic-aware post-OCR correction to enhance both visual clarity and textual consistency, thereby improving text extraction from degraded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shuhao Guan , Moule Lin , Cheng Xu , Xinyi Liu , Jinman Zhao , Jiexin Fan , Qi Xu , Derek Greene

This research paper delves into the development of an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for the recognition of Ashokan Brahmi characters using Convolutional Neural Networks. It utilizes a comprehensive dataset of character images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yash Agrawal , Srinidhi Balasubramanian , Rahul Meena , Rohail Alam , Himanshu Malviya , Rohini P

Unsupervised object-centric representation (OCR) learning has recently drawn attention as a new paradigm of visual representation. This is because of its potential of being an effective pre-training technique for various downstream tasks in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jaesik Yoon , Yi-Fu Wu , Heechul Bae , Sungjin Ahn

The project comes with the technique of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which includes various research sides of computer science. The project is to take a picture of a character and process it up to recognize the image of that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Arkaprabha Basu , M. Sathya