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Existing optical character recognition (OCR) methods rely on task-specific designs with divergent paradigms, architectures, and training strategies, which significantly increases the complexity of research and maintenance and hinders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dezhi Peng , Zhenhua Yang , Jiaxin Zhang , Chongyu Liu , Yongxin Shi , Kai Ding , Fengjun Guo , Lianwen Jin

Optical character recognition (OCR) and document understanding systems increasingly rely on large vision and vision-language models, yet evaluation remains centered on modern, Western, and institutional documents. This emphasis masks system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Fitsum Sileshi Beyene , Christopher L. Dancy

Text line segmentation is one of the pre-stages of modern optical character recognition systems. The algorithmic approach proposed by this paper has been designed for this exact purpose. Its main characteristic is the combination of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Pit Schneider

We demonstrate that state-of-the-art optical character recognition (OCR) based on deep learning is vulnerable to adversarial images. Minor modifications to images of printed text, which do not change the meaning of the text to a human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-16 Congzheng Song , Vitaly Shmatikov

We propose a framework for sequence-to-sequence contrastive learning (SeqCLR) of visual representations, which we apply to text recognition. To account for the sequence-to-sequence structure, each feature map is divided into different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Aviad Aberdam , Ron Litman , Shahar Tsiper , Oron Anschel , Ron Slossberg , Shai Mazor , R. Manmatha , Pietro Perona

The automatic recognition of tabular data in document images presents a significant challenge due to the diverse range of table styles and complex structures. Tables offer valuable content representation, enhancing the predictive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Avinash Anand , Raj Jaiswal , Pijush Bhuyan , Mohit Gupta , Siddhesh Bangar , Md. Modassir Imam , Rajiv Ratn Shah , Shin'ichi Satoh

Over the past decade, machine learning methods have given us driverless cars, voice recognition, effective web search, and a much better understanding of the human genome. Machine learning is so common today that it is used dozens of times…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Omer Aydin

A crucial component for the scene text based reasoning required for TextVQA and TextCaps datasets involve detecting and recognizing text present in the images using an optical character recognition (OCR) system. The current systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Amanpreet Singh , Guan Pang , Mandy Toh , Jing Huang , Wojciech Galuba , Tal Hassner

Oracle character recognition-an analysis of ancient Chinese inscriptions found on oracle bones-has become a pivotal field intersecting archaeology, paleography, and historical cultural studies. Traditional methods of oracle character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Jing Li , Xueke Chi , Qiufeng Wang , Dahan Wang , Kaizhu Huang , Yongge Liu , Cheng-lin Liu

The analysis of historical documents is still a topical issue given the importance of information that can be extracted and also the importance given by the institutions to preserve their heritage. The main idea in order to characterize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-08-30 Nizar Zaghden , Remy Mullot , Mohamed Adel Alimi

Optical character recognition (OCR) for historical documents is a complex procedure subject to a unique set of material issues, including inconsistencies in typefaces and low quality scanning. Consequently, even the most sophisticated OCR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Alberto Poncelas , Mohammad Aboomar , Jan Buts , James Hadley , Andy Way

Optical character recognition (OCR) is widely applied in real applications serving as a key preprocessing tool. The adoption of deep neural network (DNN) in OCR results in the vulnerability against adversarial examples which are crafted to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Lu Chen , Wei Xu

The indexing and searching of historical documents have garnered attention in recent years due to massive digitization efforts of important collections worldwide. Pure textual search in these corpora is a problem since optical character…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-04-23 Taivanbat Badamdorj , Adiel Ben-Shalom , Nachum Dershowitz , Lior Wolf

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology finds applications in digitizing books and unstructured documents, along with applications in other domains such as mobility statistics, law enforcement, traffic, security systems, etc. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Aishik Rakshit , Samyak Mehta , Anirban Dasgupta

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

Much of the existing linguistic data in many languages of the world is locked away in non-digitized books and documents. Optical character recognition (OCR) can be used to produce digitized text, and previous work has demonstrated the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Shruti Rijhwani , Daisy Rosenblum , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Optical character recognition (OCR) has evolved from line-level transcription to structured document parsing, requiring models to recover long-form sequences containing layout, tables, and formulas. Despite recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Hejun Dong , Junbo Niu , Bin Wang , Weijun Zeng , Wentao Zhang , Conghui He

Digital camera and mobile document image acquisition are new trends arising in the world of Optical Character Recognition and text detection. In some cases, such process integrates many distortions and produces poorly scanned text or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-09-14 Abdeslam El Harraj , Naoufal Raissouni

Telugu is a Dravidian language spoken by more than 80 million people worldwide. The optical character recognition (OCR) of the Telugu script has wide ranging applications including education, health-care, administration etc. The beautiful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-27 Chandra Prakash Konkimalla , Manikanta Srikar Yellapragada , Trishal Gayam , Souraj Mandal , Sumohana S. Channappayya

This research paper presents a unique Bengali OCR system with some capabilities. The system excels in reconstructing document layouts while preserving structure, alignment, and images. It incorporates advanced image and signature detection…

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