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Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR) is critical for converting 2D molecular diagrams from printed literature into machine-readable formats. While Vision-Language Models have shown promise in end-to-end OCR tasks, their direct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Haocheng Tang , Xingyu Dang , Junmei Wang

Khmer is a low-resource language characterized by a complex script, presenting significant challenges for optical character recognition (OCR). While document printed text recognition has advanced because of available datasets, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Marry Kong , Rina Buoy , Sovisal Chenda , Nguonly Taing , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

Long-term OCR services aim to provide high-quality output to their users at competitive costs. It is essential to upgrade the models because of the complex data loaded by the users. The service providers encourage the users who provide data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ajoy Mondal , Rohit saluja , C. V. Jawahar

Automatic optical inspection (AOI) plays a pivotal role in the manufacturing process, predominantly leveraging high-resolution imaging instruments for scanning purposes. It detects anomalies by analyzing image textures or patterns, making…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Chih-Chung Hsu , Chia-Ming Lee , Chun-Hung Sun , Kuang-Ming Wu

Recognizing and processing Classical Chinese (Han-Nom) texts play a vital role in digitizing Vietnamese historical documents and enabling cross-lingual semantic research. However, existing OCR systems struggle with degraded scans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Minh Hoang Nguyen , Su Nguyen Thiet

The objective of the paper is to recognize handwritten samples of basic Bangla characters using Tesseract open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine under Apache License 2.0. Handwritten data samples containing isolated Bangla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Debkumar Ghosal , Tanmoy Das , Subhrajit Dutta , Subhadip Basu

Classical OCR pipelines decompose document reading into detection, segmentation, and recognition stages, which makes them sensitive to localization errors and difficult to extend to interactive querying. This work investigates whether a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Laziz Hamdi , Amine Tamasna , Pascal Boisson , Thierry Paquet

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

Optical Character Recognition is a technique that converts document images into searchable and editable text, making it a valuable tool for processing scanned documents. While the Farsi language stands as a prominent and official language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Fatemeh Asadi-zeydabadi , Ali Afkari-Fahandari , Amin Faraji , Elham Shabaninia , Hossein Nezamabadi-pour

We report upon the results of a research and prototype building project \emph{Worldly~OCR} dedicated to developing new, more accurate image-to-text conversion software for several languages and writing systems. These include the cursive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Marek Rychlik , Dwight Nwaigwe , Yan Han , Dylan Murphy

The digitization of historical folkloristic materials presents unique challenges due to diverse text layouts, varying print and handwriting styles, and linguistic variations. This study explores different optical character recognition (OCR)…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Octavian M. Machidon , Alina L. Machidon

This paper addresses a major challenge to historical research on the 19th century. Large quantities of sources have become digitally available for the first time, while extraction techniques are lagging behind. Therefore, we researched…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 David Fleischhacker , Wolfgang Goederle , Roman Kern

Scholars in the humanities rely heavily on ancient manuscripts to study history, religion, and socio-political structures in the past. Many efforts have been devoted to digitizing these precious manuscripts using OCR technology, but most…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Queenie Luo , Yung-Sung Chuang

In this paper, we propose a data augmentation framework for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The proposed framework is able to synthesize new viewing angles and illumination scenarios, effectively enriching any available OCR dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Andreas Spruck , Maximiliane Hawesch , Anatol Maier , Christian Riess , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

This paper proposes a combination of a convolutional and a LSTM network to improve the accuracy of OCR on early printed books. While the standard model of line based OCR uses a single LSTM layer, we utilize a CNN- and Pooling-Layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Christoph Wick , Christian Reul , Frank Puppe

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

In recent years, text-image joint pre-training techniques have shown promising results in various tasks. However, in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks, aligning text instances with their corresponding text regions in images poses a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Chen Duan , Pei Fu , Shan Guo , Qianyi Jiang , Xiaoming Wei

Optical Character Recognition software (OCR) are important tools for obtaining accessible texts. We propose the use of artificial neural networks (ANN) in order to develop pattern recognition algorithms capable of recognizing both normal…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-08 Giuseppe Airò Farulla , Tiziana Armano , Anna Capietto , Nadir Murru , Rosaria Rossini

The digitization of multi-domain retail billing documents remains a challenging task due to variability in scan quality, layout heterogeneity, and domain diversity across commercial sectors. This paper proposes and benchmarks an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Vijaysinh Gaikwad

There is an immense quantity of historical and cultural documentation that exists only as handwritten manuscripts. At the same time, performing OCR across scripts and different handwriting styles has proven to be an enormously difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Lucian Li