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Text image super-resolution is a challenging yet open research problem in the computer vision community. In particular, low-resolution images hamper the performance of typical optical character recognition (OCR) systems. In this article, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-09 Chao Dong , Ximei Zhu , Yubin Deng , Chen Change Loy , Yu Qiao

This research is the second phase in a series of investigations on developing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Arabic historical documents and examining how different modeling procedures interact with the problem. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Aly Mostafa , Omar Mohamed , Ali Ashraf , Ahmed Elbehery , Salma Jamal , Anas Salah , Amr S. Ghoneim

In this paper, we propose a novel method based on character sequence-to-sequence models to correct documents already processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. The main contribution of this paper is a set of strategies to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Juan Ramirez-Orta , Eduardo Xamena , Ana Maguitman , Evangelos Milios , Axel J. Soto

Current state-of-the-art machine translation systems are based on encoder-decoder architectures, that first encode the input sequence, and then generate an output sequence based on the input encoding. Both are interfaced with an attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Maha Elbayad , Laurent Besacier , Jakob Verbeek

We propose a framework for sequence-to-sequence contrastive learning (SeqCLR) of visual representations, which we apply to text recognition. To account for the sequence-to-sequence structure, each feature map is divided into different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Aviad Aberdam , Ron Litman , Shahar Tsiper , Oron Anschel , Ron Slossberg , Shai Mazor , R. Manmatha , Pietro Perona

The success rates of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems for printed Malayalam documents is quite impressive with the state of the art accuracy levels in the range of 85-95% for various. However for real applications, further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Sajilal Divakaran

Recently, there has been a growing interest in end-to-end speech recognition that directly transcribes speech to text without any predefined alignments. In this paper, we explore the use of attention-based encoder-decoder model for Mandarin…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Changhao Shan , Junbo Zhang , Yujun Wang , Lei Xie

This work proposes an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model for handwritten word recognition and explores transfer learning for data-efficient training of HTR systems. To overcome training data scarcity, this work leverages models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Dmitrijs Kass , Ekta Vats

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

Text recognition is significantly influenced by font types, especially for complex scripts like Khmer. The variety of Khmer fonts, each with its unique character structure, presents challenges for optical character recognition (OCR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Vannkinh Nom , Souhail Bakkali , Muhammad Muzzamil Luqman , Mickael Coustaty , Jean-Marc Ogier

We present a state-of-the-art end-to-end Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) model. We learn to listen and write characters with a joint Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) and attention-based encoder-decoder network. The encoder is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Takaaki Hori , Shinji Watanabe , Yu Zhang , William Chan

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

Recognition of ancient Tamil characters has always been a challenge for epigraphers. This is primarily because the language has evolved over the several centuries and the character set over this time has both expanded and diversified. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Lalitha Giridhar , Aishwarya Dharani and , Velmathi Guruviah

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is essential in applications such as document processing, license plate recognition, and intelligent surveillance. However, existing OCR models often underperform in real-world scenarios due to irregular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Inho Jake Park , Jaehoon Jay Jeong , Ho-Sang Jo

Text recognition in natural images remains a challenging yet essential task, with broad applications spanning computer vision and natural language processing. This paper introduces a novel end-to-end framework that combines ResNet and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Naphat Nithisopa , Teerapong Panboonyuen

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

Recent advancements in deep neural networks have markedly enhanced the performance of computer vision tasks, yet the specialized nature of these networks often necessitates extensive data and high computational power. Addressing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiayou Chao , Wei Zhu

Conventional optical character recognition (OCR) techniques segmented each character and then recognized. This made them prone to error in character segmentation, and devoid of context to exploit language models. Advances in sequence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shashank Vempati , Nishit Anand , Gaurav Talebailkar , Arpan Garai , Chetan Arora

Handwritten text recognition is an open problem of great interest in the area of automatic document image analysis. The transcription of handwritten content present in digitized documents is significant in analyzing historical archives or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jorge Sueiras

We present recursive recurrent neural networks with attention modeling (R$^2$AM) for lexicon-free optical character recognition in natural scene images. The primary advantages of the proposed method are: (1) use of recursive convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-03-11 Chen-Yu Lee , Simon Osindero