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This paper is concerned with the problem of establishing an index based on word matching. It is assumed that the book was digitised as better as possible and some pre-processing techniques were already applied as line orientation correction…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 A. Marcolino , Vitorino Ramos , Mario Ramalho , J. R. Caldas Pinto

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

The digitization of historical documents is crucial for preserving the cultural heritage of the society. An important step in this process is converting scanned images to text using Optical Character Recognition (OCR), which can enable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Angel Beshirov , Milena Dobreva , Dimitar Dimitrov , Momchil Hardalov , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

We consider models for which it is important, early in processing, to estimate some variables with high precision, but perhaps at relatively low rates of recall. If some variables can be identified with near certainty, then they can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2009-07-03 Andrew Kae , Gary B. Huang , Erik Learned-Miller

Some historical and more recent printed documents have been scanned or stored at very low resolutions, such as 60 dpi. Though such scans are relatively easy for humans to read, they still present significant challenges for optical character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Julian D. Gilbey , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that offers comprehensive alphanumeric recognition of handwritten and printed characters at electronic speed by merely scanning the document. Recently, the understanding of visual data has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Atman Mishra , A. Sharath Ram , Kavyashree C

We investigate how to train a high quality optical character recognition (OCR) model for difficult historical typefaces on degraded paper. Through extensive grid searches, we obtain a neural network architecture and a set of optimal data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Bernhard Liebl , Manuel Burghardt

Extracting fine-grained OCR text from aged documents in diacritic languages remains challenging due to unexpected artifacts, time-induced degradation, and lack of datasets. While standalone spell correction approaches have been proposed,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Thao Do , Dinh Phu Tran , An Vo , Daeyoung Kim

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) continues to face accuracy challenges that impact subsequent applications. To address these errors, we explore the utility of OCR confidence scores for enhancing post-OCR error detection. Our study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Arthur Hemmer , Mickaël Coustaty , Nicola Bartolo , Jean-Marc Ogier

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

Scientific articles published prior to the "age of digitization" (~1997) require Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to transform scanned documents into machine-readable text, a process that often produces errors. We develop a pipeline for…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Jill P. Naiman , Morgan G. Cosillo , Peter K. G. Williams , Alyssa Goodman

Detecting manipulations in digital documents is becoming increasingly important for information verification purposes. Due to the proliferation of image editing software, altering key information in documents has become widely accessible.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Hailey Joren , Otkrist Gupta , Dan Raviv

OCR errors are common in digitised historical archives significantly affecting their usability and value. Generative Language Models (LMs) have shown potential for correcting these errors using the context provided by the corrupted text and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jonathan Bourne

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

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has revolutionized the digitization of printed text, enabling efficient data extraction and analysis across various domains. Just like Machine Translation systems, OCR systems are prone to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Harshvivek Kashid , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

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

Industrial Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems depend on optical character recognition (OCR) to transform visual documents into text. Existing OCR benchmarks rely on character-level metrics, which inadequately measure downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lin Sun , Wang Dexian , Jingang Huang , Linglin Zhang , Change Jia , Zhengwei Cheng , Xiangzheng Zhang

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a widely used tool to extract text from scanned documents. Today, the state-of-the-art is achieved by exploiting deep neural networks. However, the cost of this performance is paid at the price of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Mauro Conti , Nicola Farronato , Stefanos Koffas , Luca Pajola , Stjepan Picek

Text recognition in the wild is a long-standing problem in computer vision. Driven by end-to-end deep learning, recent studies suggest vision and language processing are effective for scene text recognition. Yet, solving edit errors such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Wenwen Yu , Mingyu Liu , Biao Yang , Enming Zhang , Deqiang Jiang , Xing Sun , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

The development of large vision language models drives the demand for managing, and applying massive amounts of multimodal data, making OCR technology, which extracts information from visual images, increasingly popular. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yufeng Zhong , Lei Chen , Xuanle Zhao , Wenkang Han , Liming Zheng , Jing Huang , Deyang Jiang , Yilin Cao , Lin Ma , Zhixiong Zeng