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In the present work, we have used Tesseract 2.01 open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) Engine under Apache License 2.0 for recognition of handwriting samples of lower case Roman script. Handwritten isolated and free-flow text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Subhadip Basu

With the rapid development of OCR technology, mixed-scene text recognition has become a key technical challenge. Although deep learning models have achieved significant results in specific scenarios, their generality and stability still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Da Chang , Yu Li

The evaluation of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models during their development is straightforward: because HTR is a supervised problem, the usual data split into training, validation, and test data sets allows the evaluation of models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Phillip Benjamin Ströbel , Simon Clematide , Martin Volk , Raphael Schwitter , Tobias Hodel , David Schoch

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an open problem at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. The main challenges, when dealing with historical manuscripts, are due to the preservation of the paper support,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Silvia Cascianelli , Vittorio Pippi , Martin Maarand , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

We present a Neural Network based Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model architecture that can be trained to recognize full pages of handwritten or printed text without image segmentation. Being based on Image to Sequence architecture, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Sumeet S. Singh , Sergey Karayev

While state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models perform well on standard benchmarks, they frequently struggle with writers exhibiting highly specific styles that are underrepresented in the training data. To handle unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom Simon , Stephane Nicolas , Pierrick Tranouez , Clement Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

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

Although pre-trained named entity recognition (NER) models are highly accurate on modern corpora, they underperform on historical texts due to differences in language OCR errors. In this work, we develop a new NER corpus of 3.6M sentences…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Vít Novotný , Kristýna Luger , Michal Štefánik , Tereza Vrabcová , Aleš Horák

The problem of converting images of text into plain text is a widely researched topic in both academia and industry. Arabic handwritten Text Recognation (AHTR) poses additional challenges due to diverse handwriting styles and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Alhossien Waly , Bassant Tarek , Ali Feteha , Rewan Yehia , Gasser Amr , Ahmed Fares

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

In this paper, we demonstrate how a generative model can be used to build a better recognizer through the control of content and style. We are building an online handwriting recognizer from a modest amount of training samples. By training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-15 Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Martin Bresler , Youssouf Chherawala , Adrien Delaye , Thomas Deselaers , Ryan Dixon , Oncel Tuzel

Performances of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models are largely determined by the availability of labeled and representative training samples. However, in many application scenarios labeled samples are scarce or costly to obtain. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Fabian Wolf , Gernot A. Fink

In recent years, the field of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has seen the emergence of various new models, each claiming to perform competitively better than the other in specific scenarios. However, making a fair comparison of these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Badri Vishal Kasuba , Dhruv Kudale , Venkatapathy Subramanian , Parag Chaudhuri , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

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

The pressing need for digitization of historical documents has led to a strong interest in designing computerised image processing methods for automatic handwritten text recognition. However, not much attention has been paid on studying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Liang Cheng , Jonas Frankemölle , Adam Axelsson , Ekta Vats

Recent advances in Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) have led to significant reductions in transcription errors on standard benchmarks under the i.i.d. assumption, thus focusing on minimizing in-distribution (ID) errors. However, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

This paper proposes a handwritten text recognition(HTR) system that outperforms current state-of-the-artmethods. The comparison was carried out on three of themost frequently used in HTR task datasets, namely Ben-tham, IAM, and Saint Gall.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Alex Shonenkov , Denis Karachev , Maxim Novopoltsev , Mark Potanin , Denis Dimitrov

Currently, the destruction of the sequence structure in handwritten text has become one of the main bottlenecks restricting the recognition task. The typical situations include additional specific markers (the text swapping modification)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Zi-Rui Wang

Handwritten text recognition (HTR) for Arabic-script languages still lags behind Latin-script HTR, despite recent advances in model architectures, datasets, and benchmarks. We show that data quality is a significant limiting factor in many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Sana Al-azzawi , Elisa Barney , Marcus Liwicki

The Transformer has quickly become the dominant architecture for various pattern recognition tasks due to its capacity for long-range representation. However, transformers are data-hungry models and need large datasets for training. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Marwa Dhiaf , Ahmed Cheikh Rouhou , Yousri Kessentini , Sinda Ben Salem