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In this paper we introduce a method that significantly reduces the character error rates for OCR text obtained from OCRopus models trained on early printed books. The method uses a combination of cross fold training and confidence based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Christian Reul , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Frank Puppe

In this paper, we present an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system specifically designed for the accurate recognition and digitization of Greek polytonic texts. By leveraging the combined strengths of convolutional layers for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Perifanos Konstantinos , Goutsos Dionisis

The objective of the paper is to recognize handwritten samples of basic Bangla characters using Tesseract open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine under Apache License 2.0. Handwritten data samples containing isolated Bangla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Debkumar Ghosal , Tanmoy Das , Subhrajit Dutta , Subhadip Basu

India is a multi-lingual country where Roman script is often used alongside different Indic scripts in a text document. To develop a script specific handwritten Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, it is therefore necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Ram Sarkar , Nibaran Das , Subhadip Basu , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for low-resource languages remains a significant challenge due to the scarcity of large-scale annotated training datasets. Languages such as Kashmiri, with approximately 7 million speakers and a complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Haq Nawaz Malik , Kh Mohmad Shafi , Tanveer Ahmad Reshi

The biggest challenge in the field of image processing is to recognize documents both in printed and handwritten format. Optical Character Recognition OCR is a type of document image analysis where scanned digital image that contains either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Nisha Vasudeva , Hem Jyotsana Parashar

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

The ultimate aim of handwriting recognition is to make computers able to read and/or authenticate human written texts, with a performance comparable to or even better than that of humans. Reading means that the computer is given a piece of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-26 Manal A. Abdullah , Lulwah M. Al-Harigy , Hanadi H. Al-Fraidi

Handwriting recognition is one of the active and challenging areas of research in the field of image processing and pattern recognition. It has many applications that include: a reading aid for visual impairment, automated reading and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Rebin M. Ahmed , Tarik A. Rashid , Polla Fattah , Abeer Alsadoon , Nebojsa Bacanin , Seyedali Mirjalili , S. Vimal , Amit Chhabra

Words are properly segmented in the Persian writing system; in practice, however, these writing rules are often neglected, resulting in single words being written disjointedly and multiple words written without any white spaces between…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-29 Ehsan Doostmohammadi , Minoo Nassajian , Adel Rahimi

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology has been widely used in various scenes, as shown in Figure 1. Designing a practical OCR system is still a meaningful but challenging task. In previous work, considering the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Chenxia Li , Weiwei Liu , Ruoyu Guo , Xiaoting Yin , Kaitao Jiang , Yongkun Du , Yuning Du , Lingfeng Zhu , Baohua Lai , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

Printed text recognition is an important problem for industrial OCR systems. Printed text is constructed in a standard procedural fashion in most settings. We develop a mathematical model for this process that can be applied to the backward…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Wei Tang , John Corring , Ying Wu , Gang Hua

Text processing is one of the sub-branches of natural language processing. Recently, the use of machine learning and neural networks methods has been given greater consideration. For this reason, the representation of words has become very…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Siamak Sarmady , Erfan Rahmani

Contrary to popular belief, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) remains a challenging problem when text occurs in unconstrained environments, like natural scenes, due to geometrical distortions, complex backgrounds, and diverse fonts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Marcin Namysl , Iuliu Konya

Automatic recognition of Urdu handwritten digits and characters, is a challenging task. It has applications in postal address reading, bank's cheque processing, and digitization and preservation of handwritten manuscripts from old ages.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-18 Hazrat Ali , Ahsan Ullah , Talha Iqbal , Shahid Khattak

Extracting Handwritten text is one of the most important components of digitizing information and making it available for large scale setting. Handwriting Optical Character Reader (OCR) is a research problem in computer vision and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Mohammad Daniyal Shaiq , Musa Dildar Ahmed Cheema , Ali Kamal

This paper presents a comparative analysis of Large Language Models (LLMs) and traditional Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems on Urdu newspapers, addressing challenges posed by complex multi-column layouts, low-resolution scans,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Samee Arif , Sualeha Farid

Classifying pages or text lines into font categories aids transcription because single font Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is generally more accurate than omni-font OCR. We present a simple framework based on Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-15 Chris Tensmeyer , Daniel Saunders , Tony Martinez

Arabic language is one of the most popular languages in the world. Hundreds of millions of people in many countries around the world speak Arabic as their native speaking. However, due to complexity of Arabic language, recognition of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-07 Ashraf A. Shahin

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been widely used in various of application scenarios. Designing an OCR system is still a challenging task. In previous work, we proposed a practical ultra lightweight OCR system (PP-OCR) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Yuning Du , Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Cheng Cui , Weiwei Liu , Jun Zhou , Bin Lu , Yehua Yang , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma