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Handwritten text recognition has been developed rapidly in the recent years, following the rise of deep learning and its applications. Though deep learning methods provide notable boost in performance concerning text recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Basilis Gatos , Christophoros Nikou

Handwriting is a natural and versatile method for human-computer interaction, especially on small mobile devices such as smart phones. However, as handwriting varies significantly from person to person, it is difficult to design handwriting…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2014-09-11 Sunsern Cheamanunkul , Yoav Freund

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) in free-layout pages is a challenging image understanding task that can provide a relevant boost to the digitization of handwritten documents and reuse of their content. The task becomes even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Silvia Cascianelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

There are two types of information in each handwritten word image: explicit information which can be easily read or derived directly, such as lexical content or word length, and implicit attributes such as the author's identity. Whether…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Sheng He , Lambert Schomaker

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

Benchmarks that reflect the diversity and complexity of real-world documents are essential for accurately evaluating Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) systems, especially Vision-Large Language Models (vLLMs). Although recent models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Mélodie Boillet , Solène Tarride , Christopher Kermorvant

Meta-learning has emerged as a trending technique to tackle few-shot text classification and achieve state-of-the-art performance. However, the performance of existing approaches heavily depends on the inter-class variance of the support…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Shuo Lei , Xuchao Zhang , Jianfeng He , Fanglan Chen , Chang-Tien Lu

The paper approaches the task of handwritten text recognition (HTR) with attentional encoder-decoder networks trained on sequences of characters, rather than words. We experiment on lines of text from popular handwriting datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jason Poulos , Rafael Valle

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

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

The advent of recurrent neural networks for handwriting recognition marked an important milestone reaching impressive recognition accuracies despite the great variability that we observe across different writing styles. Sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

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

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is crucial for document digitization, but handwritten data can contain user-identifiable features, like unique writing styles, posing privacy risks. Regulations such as the ``right to be forgotten''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Lei Kang , Xuanshuo Fu , Lluis Gomez , Alicia Fornés , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

In recent years, deep learning-based methods have shown promising results in computer vision area. However, a common deep learning model requires a large amount of labeled data, which is labor-intensive to collect and label. What's more,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Shuhao Qiu , Chuang Zhu , Wenli Zhou

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a relevant problem in computer vision, and implies unique challenges owing to its inherent variability and the rich contextualization required for its interpretation. Despite the success of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Carlos Penarrubia , Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Jose J. Valero-Mas , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a task of central importance in the field of document image understanding. State-of-the-art methods for HTR require the use of extensive annotated sets for training, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petros Georgoulas Wraight , Giorgos Sfikas , Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos , George Retsinas

This paper deals with the task of practical and open source Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) on German medieval manuscripts. We report on our efforts to construct mixed recognition models which can be applied out-of-the-box without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Christian Reul , Stefan Tomasek , Florian Langhanki , Uwe Springmann

The arrival of handwriting recognition technologies offers new possibilities for research in heritage studies. However, it is now necessary to reflect on the experiences and the practices developed by research teams. Our use of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Beatrice Couture , Farah Verret , Maxime Gohier , Dominique Deslandres

Text style transfer aims to paraphrase a sentence in one style into another style while preserving content. Due to lack of parallel training data, state-of-art methods are unsupervised and rely on large datasets that share content.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Xiwen Chen , Kenny Q. Zhu

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