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Digitization of scanned receipts aims to extract text from receipt images and save it into structured documents. This is usually split into two sub-tasks: text localization and optical character recognition (OCR). Most existing OCR models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Hongkuan Zhang , Edward Whittaker , Ikuo Kitagishi

Information Extraction from visually rich documents is a challenging task that has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its importance in several document-control based applications and its widespread commercial value. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Mohamed Dhouib , Ghassen Bettaieb , Aymen Shabou

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

We propose an end-to-end trainable network that can simultaneously detect and recognize text of arbitrary shape, making substantial progress on the open problem of reading scene text of irregular shape. We formulate arbitrary shape text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Siyang Qin , Alessandro Bissacco , Michalis Raptis , Yasuhisa Fujii , Ying Xiao

Document alignment and registration play a crucial role in numerous real-world applications, such as automated form processing, anomaly detection, and workflow automation. Traditional methods for document alignment rely on image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ross Greer , Alisha Ukani , Katherine Izhikevich , Earlence Fernandes , Stefan Savage , Alex C. Snoeren

Optical character recognition (OCR) is crucial for a deeper access to historical collections. OCR needs to account for orthographic variations, typefaces, or language evolution (i.e., new letters, word spellings), as the main source of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Lijun Lyu , Maria Koutraki , Martin Krickl , Besnik Fetahu

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

Text Recognition is one of the challenging tasks of computer vision with considerable practical interest. Optical character recognition (OCR) enables different applications for automation. This project focuses on word detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ebin Zacharias , Martin Teuchler , Bénédicte Bernier

Digital camera and mobile document image acquisition are new trends arising in the world of Optical Character Recognition and text detection. In some cases, such process integrates many distortions and produces poorly scanned text or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Abdeslam El Harraj , Naoufal Raissouni

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

This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hylke Westerdijk , Ben Blankenborg , Khondoker Ittehadul Islam

We describe a novel line-level script identification method. Previous work repurposed an OCR model generating per-character script codes, counted to obtain line-level script identification. This has two shortcomings. First, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Yasuhisa Fujii , Karel Driesen , Jonathan Baccash , Ash Hurst , Ashok C. Popat

A crucial component for the scene text based reasoning required for TextVQA and TextCaps datasets involve detecting and recognizing text present in the images using an optical character recognition (OCR) system. The current systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Amanpreet Singh , Guan Pang , Mandy Toh , Jing Huang , Wojciech Galuba , Tal Hassner

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

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is an established task with the objective of identifying the text present in an image. While many off-the-shelf OCR models exist, they are often trained for either scientific (e.g., formulae) or generic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Nan Zhang , Connor Heaton , Sean Timothy Okonsky , Prasenjit Mitra , Hilal Ezgi Toraman

Billions of public domain documents remain trapped in hard copy or lack an accurate digitization. Modern natural language processing methods cannot be used to index, retrieve, and summarize their texts; conduct computational textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Tom Bryan , Jacob Carlson , Abhishek Arora , Melissa Dell

Existing optical character recognition (OCR) methods rely on task-specific designs with divergent paradigms, architectures, and training strategies, which significantly increases the complexity of research and maintenance and hinders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dezhi Peng , Zhenhua Yang , Jiaxin Zhang , Chongyu Liu , Yongxin Shi , Kai Ding , Fengjun Guo , Lianwen Jin

Unconstrained handwritten text recognition remains challenging for computer vision systems. Paragraph text recognition is traditionally achieved by two models: the first one for line segmentation and the second one for text line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Denis Coquenet , Clément Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

This research paper introduces a novel word-level Optical Character Recognition (OCR) model specifically designed for digital Urdu text, leveraging transformer-based architectures and attention mechanisms to address the distinct challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Ahmed Mustafa , Muhammad Tahir Rafique , Muhammad Ijlal Baig , Hasan Sajid , Muhammad Jawad Khan , Karam Dad Kallu

Object detection and identification is a challenging area of computer vision and a fundamental requirement for autonomous cars. This project aims to jointly perform object detection of a swap-body and to find the type of swap-body by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ebin Zacharias , Didier Stricker , Martin Teuchler , Kripasindhu Sarkar