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In this paper, we evaluate state-of-the-art OCR methods on Egocentric data. We annotate text in EPIC-KITCHENS images, and demonstrate that existing OCR methods struggle with rotated text, which is frequently observed on objects being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Valentin Popescu , Dima Damen , Toby Perrett

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) and multilingual text understanding remain major failure modes of multimodal large language models (MLLMs), particularly in real-world images containing cluttered layouts, small fonts, blur, occlusion,…

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This research compares PDF parsing and Optical Character Recognition (OCR) methods for extracting Nepali content from PDFs. PDF parsing offers fast and accurate extraction but faces challenges with non-Unicode Nepali fonts. OCR,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Prabin Paudel , Supriya Khadka , Ranju G. C. , Rahul Shah , Basanta Joshi

Industrial Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems depend on optical character recognition (OCR) to transform visual documents into text. Existing OCR benchmarks rely on character-level metrics, which inadequately measure downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lin Sun , Wang Dexian , Jingang Huang , Linglin Zhang , Change Jia , Zhengwei Cheng , Xiangzheng Zhang

The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit records around 650,000 sentences along with their morphological and lexical tagging. But inconsistencies in morphological analysis, and in providing crucial information like the segmented word, urges the need…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-15 Sriram Krishnan , Amba Kulkarni , Gérard Huet

Despite the existence of numerous Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tools, the lack of comprehensive open-source systems hampers the progress of document digitization in various low-resource languages, including Bengali. Low-resource…

Printed text recognition is an important problem for industrial OCR systems. Printed text is constructed in a standard procedural fashion in most settings. We develop a mathematical model for this process that can be applied to the backward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Wei Tang , John Corring , Ying Wu , Gang Hua

We introduce Visual Caption Restoration (VCR), a novel vision-language task that challenges models to accurately restore partially obscured texts using pixel-level hints within images. This task stems from the observation that text embedded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Tianyu Zhang , Suyuchen Wang , Lu Li , Ge Zhang , Perouz Taslakian , Sai Rajeswar , Jie Fu , Bang Liu , Yoshua Bengio

Despite significant advances in document understanding, determining the correct orientation of scanned or photographed documents remains a critical pre-processing step in the real world settings. Accurate rotation correction is essential…

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Scene text recognition has been studied for decades due to its broad applications. However, despite Chinese characters possessing different characteristics from Latin characters, such as complex inner structures and large categories, few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Haiyang Yu , Xiaocong Wang , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

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

Segmentation of a text-document into lines, words and characters, which is considered to be the crucial pre-processing stage in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is traditionally carried out on uncompressed documents, although most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Mohammed Javed , P. Nagabhushan , B. B. Chaudhuri

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been widely used in various of application scenarios, such as office automation (OA) systems, factory automations, online educations, map productions etc. However, OCR is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuning Du , Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Xiaoting Yin , Weiwei Liu , Jun Zhou , Yifan Bai , Zilin Yu , Yehua Yang , Qingqing Dang , Haoshuang Wang

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for enhancing the reliability and utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding responses in external documents. Traditional RAG systems rely on Optical Character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Alexander Most , Joseph Winjum , Ayan Biswas , Shawn Jones , Nishath Rajiv Ranasinghe , Dan O'Malley , Manish Bhattarai

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

In the present work, we have used Tesseract 2.01 open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine under Apache License 2.0 for recognition of handwriting samples of lower case Roman script. Handwritten isolated and free-flow text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Subhadip Basu

The development of large vision language models drives the demand for managing, and applying massive amounts of multimodal data, making OCR technology, which extracts information from visual images, increasingly popular. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yufeng Zhong , Lei Chen , Xuanle Zhao , Wenkang Han , Liming Zheng , Jing Huang , Deyang Jiang , Yilin Cao , Lin Ma , Zhixiong Zeng

Existing scene text recognition (STR) methods struggle to recognize challenging texts, especially for artistic and severely distorted characters. The limitation lies in the insufficient exploration of character morphologies, including the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Yadong Qu , Yuxin Wang , Bangbang Zhou , Zixiao Wang , Hongtao Xie , Yongdong Zhang

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation is typically inspired by class activation maps, which serve as pseudo masks with class-discriminative regions highlighted. Although tremendous efforts have been made to recall precise and complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Zesen Cheng , Pengchong Qiao , Kehan Li , Siheng Li , Pengxu Wei , Xiangyang Ji , Li Yuan , Chang Liu , Jie Chen