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Online and offline handwritten Chinese text recognition (HTCR) has been studied for decades. Early methods adopted oversegmentation-based strategies but suffered from low speed, insufficient accuracy, and high cost of character segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Dezhi Peng , Lianwen Jin , Weihong Ma , Canyu Xie , Hesuo Zhang , Shenggao Zhu , Jing Li

HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerous handwritten documents. Although the method has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lucas Noëmie , Clément Salah , Chahan Vidal-Gorène

Handwritten document recognition (HDR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of computer vision, due to the various writing styles and complex layouts inherent in handwritten texts. Traditionally, this problem has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Mohammed Hamdan , Abderrahmane Rahiche , Mohamed Cheriet

Scene text recognition (STR) and handwritten text recognition (HTR) face significant challenges in accurately transcribing textual content from images into machine-readable formats. Conventional OCR models often predict transcriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xu Yao , Lei Kang

Historical handwritten text recognition (HTR) is essential for unlocking the cultural and scholarly value of archival documents, yet digitization is often hindered by scarce transcriptions, linguistic variation, and highly diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Erez Meoded

Handwritten Digit Recognition (HDR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the domain of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Irrespective of language, there are some inherent challenges of HDR, which mostly arise due to the variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Sabbir Ahmed , Tasnim Ahmed , Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee , Mohammad Ridwan Kabir , Md. Hasanul Kabir

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

This letter introduces a pioneering, training-free and explainable framework for High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) automatic target recognition (ATR) utilizing large-scale pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs). Diverging from…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Lingfeng Chen , Panhe Hu , Zhiliang Pan , Qi Liu , Zhen Liu

Recent progress in deep learning has led to the development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems which perform remarkably well. Most research has been around recurrent networks as well as complex gated layers which make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Kartik Chaudhary , Raghav Bali

Given the ubiquity of handwritten documents in human transactions, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of documents have invaluable practical worth. Optical character recognition is a science that enables to translate various types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jamshed Memon , Maira Sami , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script languages benefits from cross-language joint training under low-resource conditions, particularly when using CRNN-based models that combine convolutional encoders with sequence modeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Sana Al-azzawi , Chang Liu , Nudrat Habib , Elisa Barney , Marcus Liwicki

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN) have recently achieved the best performance in off-line Handwriting Text Recognition. At the same time, learning RNN by gradient descent leads to slow convergence, and training times are particularly long…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-09 Jérôme Louradour , Christopher Kermorvant

This paper presents the first end-to-end pipeline for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Old Nepali, a historically significant but low-resource language. We adopt a line-level transcription approach and systematically explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Anjali Sarawgi , Esteban Garces Arias , Christof Zotter

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models trained on synthetic handwriting often struggle to generalize to real text, and existing adaptation methods still require real samples from the target domain. In this work, we tackle the fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Aniello Panariello , Silvia Cascianelli , Angelo Porrello , Simone Calderara , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , Rita Cucchiara

Recognizing characters from low-resolution (LR) text images poses a significant challenge due to the information deficiency as well as the noise and blur in low-quality images. Current solutions for low-resolution text recognition (LTR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Hang Guo , Tao Dai , Mingyan Zhu , Guanghao Meng , Bin Chen , Zhi Wang , Shu-Tao Xia

Handwritten text recognition in low resource scenarios, such as manuscripts with rare alphabets, is a challenging problem. The main difficulty comes from the very few annotated data and the limited linguistic information (e.g. dictionaries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Alicia Fornés , Yousri Kessentini , Beáta Megyesi

This article focuses on the transcription of medieval manuscripts. Whereas problems of transcription have long interested medievalists, few workable options in the era of printed editions were available besides normalisation. The automation…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Estelle Guéville , David Joseph Wrisley

Many important classification problems in the real-world consist of a large number of closely related categories in a hierarchical structure or taxonomy. Hierarchical multi-label text classification (HMTC) with higher accuracy over large…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Pengfei Gao , Jingpeng Zhao , Yinglong Ma , Ahmad Tanvir , Beihong Jin

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

Just like its remarkable achievements in many computer vision tasks, the convolutional neural networks (CNN) provide an end-to-end solution in handwritten Chinese character recognition (HCCR) with great success. However, the process of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Zhiyuan Li , Min Jin , Qi Wu , Huaxiang Lu