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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

This report explores the latest advances in the field of digital document recognition. With the focus on printed document imagery, we discuss the major developments in optical character recognition (OCR) and document image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Eugene Borovikov

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

The performance of optical character recognition (OCR) heavily relies on document image quality, which is crucial for automatic document processing and document intelligence. However, most existing document enhancement methods require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Jiaxin Zhang , Joy Rimchala , Lalla Mouatadid , Kamalika Das , Sricharan Kumar

The discovery and optimization of materials for specific applications is hampered by the practically infinite number of possible elemental combinations and associated properties, also known as the `combinatorial explosion'. By nature of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Lei Zhang , Markus Stricker

In this paper, we propose a data augmentation framework for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The proposed framework is able to synthesize new viewing angles and illumination scenarios, effectively enriching any available OCR dataset.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Andreas Spruck , Maximiliane Hawesch , Anatol Maier , Christian Riess , Jürgen Seiler , André Kaup

We introduce ABot-OCR, an end-to-end vision-language model that transcribes a page image directly into clean Markdown in a single forward pass. By doing so, our approach completely eliminates the need for brittle modular orchestration. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaitao Jiang , Ruiyan Gong , Xiaolong Cheng , Kangning Niu , Tianlun Li , Mu Xu

The most prevalent scope of interest for OCR applications used to be scanned documents, but it has now shifted towards the natural scene. Despite the change of times, the existing evaluation methods are still based on the old criteria…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Hong-Seok Lee , Youngmin Yoon , Pil-Hoon Jang , Chankyu Choi

In this paper, we present our approach to extracting structured information from unstructured Electronic Health Records (EHR) [2] which can be used to, for example, study adverse drug reactions in patients due to chemicals in their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-30 Amogh Kamat Tarcar , Aashis Tiwari , Vineet Naique Dhaimodker , Penjo Rebelo , Rahul Desai , Dattaraj Rao

The project comes with the technique of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) which includes various research sides of computer science. The project is to take a picture of a character and process it up to recognize the image of that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Arkaprabha Basu , M. Sathya

Legal professionals need to write analyses that rely on citations to relevant precedents, i.e., previous case decisions. Intelligent systems assisting legal professionals in writing such documents provide great benefits but are challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Abe Bohan Hou , Orion Weller , Guanghui Qin , Eugene Yang , Dawn Lawrie , Nils Holzenberger , Andrew Blair-Stanek , Benjamin Van Durme

We develop Process Execution Graphs (PEG), a document-level representation of real-world wet lab biochemistry protocols, addressing challenges such as cross-sentence relations, long-range coreference, grounding, and implicit arguments. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-15 Ronen Tamari , Fan Bai , Alan Ritter , Gabriel Stanovsky

Recognizing text from natural images is a hot research topic in computer vision due to its various applications. Despite the enduring research of several decades on optical character recognition (OCR), recognizing texts from natural images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-23 Zhanzhan Cheng , Yangliu Xu , Fan Bai , Yi Niu , Shiliang Pu , Shuigeng Zhou

Extracting the relevant information out of a large number of documents is a challenging and tedious task. The quality of results generated by the traditionally available full-text search engine and text-based image retrieval systems is not…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Riya Gupta , C. V. Jawahar

We propose an end-to-end recurrent encoder-decoder based sequence learning approach for printed text Optical Character Recognition (OCR). In contrast to present day existing state-of-art OCR solution which uses connectionist temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-29 Devendra Kumar Sahu , Mohak Sukhwani

This project undertakes the training and analysis of optical character recognition OCR methods applied to 10th century ancient Tamil inscriptions discovered on the walls of the Brihadeeswarar Temple.The chosen OCR methods include…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Velmathi G , Shangavelan M , Harish D , Krithikshun M S

Images tell powerful stories but cannot always be trusted. Matching images back to trusted sources (attribution) enables users to make a more informed judgment of the images they encounter online. We propose a robust image hashing algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Eric Nguyen , Tu Bui , Vishy Swaminathan , John Collomosse

Hybrid Retrieval systems, combining Sparse and Dense Retrieval methods, struggle with Traditional Chinese non-narrative documents due to their complex formatting, rich vocabulary, and the insufficient understanding of Chinese synonyms by…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Hsin-Ling Hsu , Ping-Sheng Lin , Jing-Di Lin , Jengnan Tzeng

Semi-structured information extraction (IE) from OCR-derived clinical reports is crucial for efficiently reconstructing patients' longitudinal medical histories. In practice, this scenario commonly involves three tasks: (i) field-header…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yingyun Li , Yu Wang , Haiyang Qian

In order to apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to historical printings of Latin script fully automatically, we report on our efforts to construct a widely-applicable polyfont recognition model yielding text with a Character Error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Christian Reul , Christoph Wick , Maximilian Nöth , Andreas Büttner , Maximilian Wehner , Uwe Springmann