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Neural networks have become the technique of choice for OCR, but many aspects of how and why they deliver superior performance are still unknown. One key difference between current neural network techniques using LSTMs and the previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-25 Ekraam Sabir , Stephen Rawls , Prem Natarajan

Bengali is a prominent language of the Indian subcontinent. However, while many state-of-the-art acoustic models exist for prominent languages spoken in the region, research and resources for Bengali are few and far between. In this work,…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-12 Sayan Mandal , Sarthak Yadav , Atul Rai

People commonly communicate in English, Arabic, and Bengali spoken languages through various mediums. However, deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals primarily use body language and sign language to express their needs and achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Md Hadiuzzaman , Mohammed Sowket Ali , Tamanna Sultana , Abdur Raj Shafi , Abu Saleh Musa Miah , Jungpil Shin

Designing Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems for India requires balancing linguistic diversity, document heterogeneity, and deployment constraints. In this paper, we study two training strategies for building multilingual OCR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Ali Faraz , Raja Kolla , Ashish Kulkarni , Shubham Agarwal

Automatic speech recognition (ASR) converts the human voice into readily understandable and categorized text or words. Although Bengali is one of the most widely spoken languages in the world, there have been very few studies on Bengali…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-21 Mir Sayeed Mohammad , Azizul Zahid , Md Asif Iqbal

An independent, automated method of decoding and transcribing oral speech is known as automatic speech recognition (ASR). A typical ASR system extracts feature from audio recordings or streams and run one or more algorithms to map the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-21 Tushar Talukder Showrav

Hidden Markov model based various phoneme recognition methods for Bengali language is reviewed. Automatic phoneme recognition for Bengali language using multilayer neural network is reviewed. Usefulness of multilayer neural network over…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Sadia Tasnim Swarna , Shamim Ehsan , Md. Saiful Islam , Marium E Jannat

In this paper, we propose a solution which uses state-of-the-art techniques in Deep Learning to tackle the problem of Bengali Handwritten Character Recognition ( HCR ). Our method uses lesser iterations to train than most other comparable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-01 Swagato Chatterjee , Rwik Kumar Dutta , Debayan Ganguly , Kingshuk Chatterjee , Sudipta Roy

While strides have been made in deep learning based Bengali Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in the past decade, the absence of large Document Layout Analysis (DLA) datasets has hindered the application of OCR in document transcription,…

Bengali text classification is a Significant task in natural language processing (NLP), where text is categorized into predefined labels. Unlike English, Bengali faces challenges due to the lack of extensive annotated datasets and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Md Mahmudul Hoque , Md Mehedi Hassain , Md Hojaifa Tanvir , Rahul Nandy

Speech recognition is a fascinating process that offers the opportunity to interact and command the machine in the field of human-computer interactions. Speech recognition is a language-dependent system constructed directly based on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-28 M. F. Mridha , Abu Quwsar Ohi , Md. Abdul Hamid , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar

Recognition of text on word or line images, without the need for sub-word segmentation has become the mainstream of research and development of text recognition for Indian languages. Modelling unsegmented sequences using Connectionist…

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Developing a Bangla OCR requires bunch of algorithm and methods. There were many effort went on for developing a Bangla OCR. But all of them failed to provide an error free Bangla OCR. Each of them has some lacking. We discussed about the…

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Character segmentation has long been one of the most critical areas of optical character recognition process. Through this operation, an image of a sequence of characters, which may be connected in some cases, is decomposed into sub-images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-02-15 Subhadip Basu , Chitrita Chaudhuri , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak K. Basu

We propose a post-OCR text correction approach for digitising texts in Romanised Sanskrit. Owing to the lack of resources our approach uses OCR models trained for other languages written in Roman. Currently, there exists no dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Amrith Krishna , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Rajesh Shreedhar Bhat , Pawan Goyal

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

Large language models (LLMs) can produce text that closely resembles human writing. This capability raises concerns about misuse, including disinformation and content manipulation. Detecting AI-generated text is essential to maintain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Md. Rakibul Islam , Most. Sharmin Sultana Samu , Md. Zahid Hossain , Farhad Uz Zaman , Md. Kamrozzaman Bhuiyan

In this paper, we address the task of Optical Character Recognition(OCR) for the Telugu script. We present an end-to-end framework that segments the text image, classifies the characters and extracts lines using a language model. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-16 Rakesh Achanta , Trevor Hastie

Despite being one of the most spoken languages in the world ($6^{th}$ based on population), research regarding Bengali handwritten grapheme (smallest functional unit of a writing system) classification has not been explored widely compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Tarun Roy , Hasib Hasan , Kowsar Hossain , Masuma Akter Rumi