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Document digitization is essential for the digital transformation of our societies, yet a crucial step in the process, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is still not perfect. Even commercial OCR systems can produce questionable output…

Text detection and recognition are essential components of a modern OCR system. Most OCR approaches attempt to obtain accurate bounding boxes of text at the detection stage, which is used as the input of the text recognition stage. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Jingqun Tang , Wenming Qian , Luchuan Song , Xiena Dong , Lan Li , Xiang Bai

The recognition of optical characters is known to be one of the earliest applications of Artificial Neural Networks, which partially emulate human thinking in the domain of artificial intelligence. In this paper, a simplified neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Shashank Araokar

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the important fields in image processing and pattern recognition domain. Handwritten character recognition has always been a challenging task. Only a little work can be traced towards the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-01-03 H. R. Mamatha , S. Karthik , Murthy K. Srikanta

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been widely used in various of application scenarios, such as office automation (OA) systems, factory automations, online educations, map productions etc. However, OCR is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuning Du , Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Xiaoting Yin , Weiwei Liu , Jun Zhou , Yifan Bai , Zilin Yu , Yehua Yang , Qingqing Dang , Haoshuang Wang

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

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

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

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

An algorithm for image processing is proposed. The proposed algorithm, which can be viewed as a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm, can transform a low-resolution bitonal image of a character from the set of alphanumeric characters (A-Z,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 Ankur Pal , Abhishek Shukla , Anirban Pathak

Current OCR systems are based on deep learning models trained on large amounts of data. Although they have shown some ability to generalize to unseen data, especially in detection tasks, they can struggle with recognizing low-quality data.…

This paper explores the use of a learned classifier for post-OCR text correction. Experiments with the Arabic language show that this approach, which integrates a weighted confusion matrix and a shallow language model, improves the vast…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ido Kissos , Nachum Dershowitz

Achieving robustness in recognition systems across diverse domains is crucial for their practical utility. While ample data availability is usually assumed, low-resource languages, such as ancient manuscripts and non-western languages, tend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Adrià Molina Rodríguez , Oriol Ramos Terrades , Josep Lladós

Oracle character recognition-an analysis of ancient Chinese inscriptions found on oracle bones-has become a pivotal field intersecting archaeology, paleography, and historical cultural studies. Traditional methods of oracle character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jing Li , Xueke Chi , Qiufeng Wang , Dahan Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Yongge Liu , Cheng-lin Liu

Optical character recognition (OCR) has advanced rapidly with deep learning and multimodal models, yet most methods focus on well-resourced scripts such as Latin and Chinese. Ethnic minority languages remain underexplored due to complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Bonan Liu , Zeyu Zhang , Bingbing Meng , Han Wang , Hanshuo Zhang , Chengping Wang , Daji Ergu , Ying Cai

This paper discusses how to successfully digitize large-scale historical micro-data by augmenting optical character recognition (OCR) engines with pre- and post-processing methods. Although OCR software has improved dramatically in recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Sergio Correia , Stephan Luck

Academic documents are packed with texts, equations, tables, and figures, requiring comprehensive understanding for accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR). While end-to-end OCR methods offer improved accuracy over layout-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yu Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Chen Lin , Conghui He , Wanli Ouyang , Han-Sen Zhong

In order to apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to historical printings of Latin script fully automatically, we report on our efforts to construct a widely-applicable polyfont recognition model yielding text with a Character Error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Christian Reul , Christoph Wick , Maximilian Nöth , Andreas Büttner , Maximilian Wehner , Uwe Springmann

This research paper presents a unique Bengali OCR system with some capabilities. The system excels in reconstructing document layouts while preserving structure, alignment, and images. It incorporates advanced image and signature detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby , Hasmot Ali , Md. Majedul Islam , Sheikh Abujar , Fuad Rahman

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a process of converting analogue documents into digital using document images. Currently, many commercial and non-commercial OCR systems exist for both handwritten and printed copies for different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Farisa Benta Safir , Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. F. Mridha , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar , Md. Abdul Hamid