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Even today in Twenty First Century Handwritten communication has its own stand and most of the times, in daily life it is globally using as means of communication and recording the information like to be shared with others. Challenges in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-18 Yusuf Perwej , Ashish Chaturvedi

Handwriting text recognition (HTR) remains a challenging task. Existing approaches require fine-tuning on labeled data, which is impractical to obtain for real-world problems, or rely on zero-shot tools such as OCR engines and multi-modal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Benjamin Gutteridge , Matthew Thomas Jackson , Toni Kukurin , Xiaowen Dong

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

Handwritten digit recognition is one of the extensively studied area in machine learning. Apart from the wider research on handwritten digit recognition on MNIST dataset, there are many other research works on various script recognition.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Mesay Samuel Gondere , Lars Schmidt-Thieme , Durga Prasad Sharma , Randolf Scholz

This article examines the impact of Artificial Intelligence on the archival heritage digitization processes, specifically regarding the manuscripts' automatic transcription, their correction, and normalization. It highlights how digitality…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2023-08-07 Salvatore Spina

Historical documents present many challenges for offline handwriting recognition systems, among them, the segmentation and labeling steps. Carefully annotated textlines are needed to train an HTR system. In some scenarios, transcripts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Edgard Chammas , Chafic Mokbel , Laurence Likforman-Sulem

There is an immense quantity of historical and cultural documentation that exists only as handwritten manuscripts. At the same time, performing OCR across scripts and different handwriting styles has proven to be an enormously difficult…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Lucian Li

Handwritten character recognition is one of the most challenging and ongoing areas of research in the field of pattern recognition. HCR research is matured for foreign languages like Chinese and Japanese but the problem is much more complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-11 Anitha Mary M. O. Chacko , P. M Dhanya

In this paper we deal with the offline handwriting text recognition (HTR) problem with reduced training datasets. Recent HTR solutions based on artificial neural networks exhibit remarkable solutions in referenced databases. These deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 José Carlos Aradillas , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Pablo M. Olmos

Handwriting is an alternative method for entering texts which composed Short Message Services. However, a whole new language features the texts which are produced. They include for instance abbreviations and other consonantal writing which…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-09-17 Emmanuel Prochasson , Emmanuel Morin , Christian Viard-Gaudin

This paper introduces a new way for text-line extraction by integrating deep-learning based pre-classification and state-of-the-art segmentation methods. Text-line extraction in complex handwritten documents poses a significant challenge,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Michele Alberti , Lars Vögtlin , Vinaychandran Pondenkandath , Mathias Seuret , Rolf Ingold , Marcus Liwicki

Due to the nature of human language, historical documents are hard to comprehend by contemporary people. This limits their accessibility to scholars specialized in the time period in which the documents were written. Modernization aims at…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Miguel Domingo , Francisco Casacuberta

Transcription of legal proceedings is very important to enable access to justice. However, speech transcription is an expensive and slow process. In this paper we describe part of a combined research and industrial project for building an…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-23 Hadeel Saadany , Catherine Breslin , Constantin Orăsan , Sophie Walker

Doctors typically write in incomprehensible handwriting, making it difficult for both the general public and some pharmacists to understand the medications they have prescribed. It is not ideal for them to write the prescription quietly and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Pavithiran G , Sharan Padmanabhan , Nuvvuru Divya , Aswathy V , Irene Jerusha P , Chandar B

Handwritten character recognition (HCR) is a challenging problem for machine learning researchers. Unlike printed text data, handwritten character datasets have more variation due to human-introduced bias. With numerous unique character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Boris Kriuk , Fedor Kriuk

Handwriting recognition is a challenging and critical problem in the fields of pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning a wide range of domains. In this paper, we focus on the specific issue of recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Saleh Momeni , Bagher BabaAli

Recent advances in Automatic Text Recognition (ATR) have improved access to historical archives, yet a methodological divide persists between palaeographic transcriptions and normalized digital editions. While ATR models trained on more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Thibault Clérice , Rachel Bawden , Anthony Glaise , Ariane Pinche , David Smith

Alterations in historical manuscripts such as letters represent a promising field of research. On the one hand, they help understand the construction of text. On the other hand, topics that are being considered sensitive at the time of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-05 David Lassner , Anne Baillot , Sergej Dogadov , Klaus-Robert Müller , Shinichi Nakajima

The paper discusses an approach to decipher large collections of handwritten index cards of historical dictionaries. Our study provides a working solution that reads the cards, and links their lemmas to a searchable list of dictionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jan Idziak , Artjoms Šeļa , Michał Woźniak , Albert Leśniak , Joanna Byszuk , Maciej Eder

Machine translation (MT) plays an important role in benefiting linguists, sociologists, computer scientists, etc. by processing natural language to translate it into some other natural language. And this demand has grown exponentially over…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-01-07 Ankush Garg , Mayank Agarwal