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In this paper, we propose a novel method based on character sequence-to-sequence models to correct documents already processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. The main contribution of this paper is a set of strategies to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Juan Ramirez-Orta , Eduardo Xamena , Ana Maguitman , Evangelos Milios , Axel J. Soto

The problem of optical character recognition, OCR, has been widely discussed in the literature. Having a hand-written text, the program aims at recognizing the text. Even though there are several approaches to this issue, it is still an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-11-07 Wei Wang

In a world of digitization, optical character recognition holds the automation to written history. Optical character recognition system basically converts printed images into editable texts for better storage and usability. To be completely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Abu Saleh Md. Abir , Sanjana Rahman , Samia Ellin , Maisha Farzana , Md Hridoy Manik , Chowdhury Rafeed Rahman

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

Document comparison typically relies on optical character recognition (OCR) as its core technology. However, OCR requires the selection of appropriate language models for each document and the performance of multilingual or hybrid models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Doyoung Park , Naresh Reddy Yarram , Sunjin Kim , Minkyu Kim , Seongho Cho , Taehee Lee

Achieving robustness in recognition systems across diverse domains is crucial for their practical utility. While ample data availability is usually assumed, low-resource languages, such as ancient manuscripts and non-western languages, tend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Adrià Molina Rodríguez , Oriol Ramos Terrades , Josep Lladós

Academic documents are packed with texts, equations, tables, and figures, requiring comprehensive understanding for accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR). While end-to-end OCR methods offer improved accuracy over layout-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yu Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Chen Lin , Conghui He , Wanli Ouyang , Han-Sen Zhong

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of eighteenth-century printed texts remains challenging due to degraded print quality, archaic glyphs, and non-standardized orthography. Although transformer-based OCR systems and Vision-Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Ari Vesalainen , Eetu Mäkelä , Laura Ruotsalainen , Mikko Tolonen

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…

Linked Data is used in various fields as a new way of structuring and connecting data. Cultural heritage institutions have been using linked data to improve archival descriptions and facilitate the discovery of information. Most archival…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Mariana Dias , Carla Teixeira Lopes

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

Optical Character Recognition (OCR), the task of extracting textual information from scanned documents is a vital and broadly used technology for digitizing and indexing physical documents. Existing technologies perform well for clean…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Daniel Rotman , Ophir Azulai , Inbar Shapira , Yevgeny Burshtein , Udi Barzelay

Information Extraction from visually rich documents is a challenging task that has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its importance in several document-control based applications and its widespread commercial value. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Mohamed Dhouib , Ghassen Bettaieb , Aymen Shabou

We describe a novel line-level script identification method. Previous work repurposed an OCR model generating per-character script codes, counted to obtain line-level script identification. This has two shortcomings. First, as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Yasuhisa Fujii , Karel Driesen , Jonathan Baccash , Ash Hurst , Ashok C. Popat

Video OCR is a technique that can greatly help to locate the topics of interest in video via the automatic extraction and reading of captions and annotations. Text in video can provide key indexing information. Recognizing such text for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-01-03 Sankirti S. , P. M. Kamade

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on historical printings is a challenging task mainly due to the complexity of the layout and the highly variant typography. Nevertheless, in the last few years great progress has been made in the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Christian Reul , Dennis Christ , Alexander Hartelt , Nico Balbach , Maximilian Wehner , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Christine Grundig , Andreas Büttner , Frank Puppe

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

Text recognition is a long-standing research problem for document digitalization. Existing approaches are usually built based on CNN for image understanding and RNN for char-level text generation. In addition, another language model is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Minghao Li , Tengchao Lv , Jingye Chen , Lei Cui , Yijuan Lu , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang , Zhoujun Li , Furu Wei

Due to their high versatility in tasks such as image captioning, document analysis, and automated content generation, multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) have attracted significant attention across various industrial fields. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Kotaro Inoue

Standard OCR is a well-researched topic of computer vision and can be considered solved for machine-printed text. However, when applied to unconstrained images, the recognition rates drop drastically. Therefore, the employment of object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Albert Kavelar , Sebastian Zambanini , Martin Kampel