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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

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

Historical maps are essential resources that provide insights into the geographical landscapes of the past. They serve as valuable tools for researchers across disciplines such as history, geography, and urban studies, facilitating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Yunshuang Yuan , Monika Sester

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

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) is concerned with transcribing sheet music into a machine-readable format. The transcribed copy should allow musicians to compose, play and edit music by taking a picture of a music sheet. Complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-23 Elona Shatri , György Fazekas

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology is widely used to extract text from images of documents, facilitating efficient digitization and data retrieval. However, merely extracting text is insufficient when dealing with complex…

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

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

Data augmentation methods have been shown to be a fundamental technique to improve generalization in tasks such as image, text and audio classification. Recently, automated augmentation methods have led to further improvements on image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Elizabeth Fons , Paula Dawson , Xiao-jun Zeng , John Keane , Alexandros Iosifidis

Information extraction (IE) from unstructured documents remains a critical challenge in data processing pipelines. Traditional optical character recognition (OCR) methods and conventional parsing engines demonstrate limited effectiveness…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Aditya Parikh

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

Having a reliable accuracy score is crucial for real world applications of OCR, since such systems are judged by the number of false readings. Lexicon-based OCR systems, which deal with what is essentially a multi-class classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Noam Mor , Lior Wolf

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

We combine three methods which significantly improve the OCR accuracy of OCR models trained on early printed books: (1) The pretraining method utilizes the information stored in already existing models trained on a variety of typesets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Christian Reul , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Frank Puppe

This research paper delves into the development of an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for the recognition of Ashokan Brahmi characters using Convolutional Neural Networks. It utilizes a comprehensive dataset of character images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yash Agrawal , Srinidhi Balasubramanian , Rahul Meena , Rohail Alam , Himanshu Malviya , Rohini P

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

Despite their cultural and historical significance, Black digital archives continue to be a structurally underrepresented area in AI research and infrastructure. This is especially evident in efforts to digitize historical Black newspapers,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Fitsum Sileshi Beyene , Christopher L. Dancy

In an increasingly digitalized commerce landscape, the proliferation of credit card fraud and the evolution of sophisticated fraudulent techniques have led to substantial financial losses. Automating credit card fraud detection is a viable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Zaffar Zaffar , Fahad Sohrab , Juho Kanniainen , Moncef Gabbouj

In this paper we presented the algorithm designed to efficient coordinate cross-match of objects in the modern massive astronomical catalogues. Preliminary data sort in the existed catalogues provides the opportunity for coordinate…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-28 Volodymyr Akhmetov , Artem Dmytrenko , Sergii Khlamov

This article describes the results of a case study that applies Neural Network-based Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to scanned images of books printed between 1487 and 1870 by training the OCR engine OCRopus [@breuel2013high] on the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-04-11 U. Springmann , A. Lüdeling