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At present Automatic Speaker Recognition system is a very important issue due to its diverse applications. Hence, it becomes absolutely necessary to obtain models that take into consideration the speaking style of a person, vocal tract…

There has been recent interest in improving optical character recognition (OCR) for endangered languages, particularly because a large number of documents and books in these languages are not in machine-readable formats. The performance of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Shruti Rijhwani , Daisy Rosenblum , Michayla King , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Bengali, spoken by over 300 million people, is a morphologically rich and lowresource language, posing challenges for automatic speech recognition (ASR). This research presents an end-to-end framework for Bengali ASR, building on a…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-16 Md. Nazmus Sakib , Golam Mahmud , Md. Maruf Bangabashi , Umme Ara Mahinur Istia , Md. Jahidul Islam , Partha Sarker , Afra Yeamini Prity

This paper presents an end-to-end suite for multilingual information extraction and processing from image-based documents. The system uses Optical Character Recognition (Tesseract) to extract text in languages such as English, Hindi, and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Hrishit Madhavi , Jacob Cherian , Yuvraj Khamkar , Dhananjay Bhagat

Bahnar, a minority language spoken across Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, faces significant preservation challenges due to limited research and data availability. This study addresses the critical need for accurate digitization of Bahnar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Phat Tran , Phuoc Pham , Hung Trinh , Tho Quan

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for low-resource languages remains a significant challenge due to the scarcity of large-scale annotated training datasets. Languages such as Kashmiri, with approximately 7 million speakers and a complex…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Haq Nawaz Malik , Kh Mohmad Shafi , Tanveer Ahmad Reshi

Retrieving textual information from natural scene images is an active research area in the field of computer vision with numerous practical applications. Detecting text regions and extracting text from signboards is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Hasan Murad , Mohammed Eunus Ali

Recognition of document images have important applications in restoring old and classical texts. The problem involves quality improvement before passing it to a properly trained OCR to get accurate recognition of the text. The image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-01 Ram Krishna Pandey , A G Ramakrishnan

As an Indo-Aryan language with limited available data, Chakma remains largely underrepresented in language models. In this work, we introduce a novel corpus of contextually coherent Bangla-transliterated Chakma, curated from Chakma…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Adity Khisa , Nusrat Jahan Lia , Tasnim Mahfuz Nafis , Zarif Masud , Tanzir Pial , Shebuti Rayana , Ahmedul Kabir

Typical text recognition methods rely on an encoder-decoder structure, in which the encoder extracts features from an image, and the decoder produces recognized text from these features. In this study, we propose a simpler and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Masato Fujitake

Word-level handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) remains a challenge for morphologically rich languages like Bangla. The complexity arises from the existence of a large number of alphabets, the presence of several diacritic forms,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Md. Ismail Hossain , Mohammed Rakib , Sabbir Mollah , Fuad Rahman , Nabeel Mohammed

The objective of the paper is to recognize handwritten samples of basic Bangla characters using Tesseract open source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine under Apache License 2.0. Handwritten data samples containing isolated Bangla…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Debkumar Ghosal , Tanmoy Das , Subhrajit Dutta , Subhadip Basu

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology has revolutionized the digitization of printed text, enabling efficient data extraction and analysis across various domains. Just like Machine Translation systems, OCR systems are prone to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Harshvivek Kashid , Pushpak Bhattacharyya

There is very little notable research on generating descriptions of the Bengali language. About 243 million people speak in Bengali, and it is the 7th most spoken language on the planet. The purpose of this research is to propose a CNN and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Al Momin Faruk , Hasan Al Faraby , Md. Muzahidul Azad , Md. Riduyan Fedous , Md. Kishor Morol

The applications of recurrent neural networks in machine translation are increasing in natural language processing. Besides other languages, Bangla language contains a large amount of vocabulary. Improvement of English to Bangla machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Shaykh Siddique , Tahmid Ahmed , Md. Rifayet Azam Talukder , Md. Mohsin Uddin

Latin has historically led the state-of-the-art in handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) research. Adapting existing systems from Latin to alpha-syllabary languages is particularly challenging due to a sharp contrast between their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Samiul Alam , Tahsin Reasat , Asif Shahriyar Sushmit , Sadi Mohammad Siddiquee , Fuad Rahman , Mahady Hasan , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun

Khmer is a low-resource language characterized by a complex script, presenting significant challenges for optical character recognition (OCR). While document printed text recognition has advanced because of available datasets, performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Marry Kong , Rina Buoy , Sovisal Chenda , Nguonly Taing , Masakazu Iwamura , Koichi Kise

The impact of subword tokenization on language model performance is well-documented for perplexity, with finer granularity consistently reducing this intrinsic metric. However, research on how different tokenization schemes affect a model's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Nishant Luitel , Nirajan Bekoju , Anand Kumar Sah , Subarna Shakya

This research is the second phase in a series of investigations on developing an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of Arabic historical documents and examining how different modeling procedures interact with the problem. The first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-30 Aly Mostafa , Omar Mohamed , Ali Ashraf , Ahmed Elbehery , Salma Jamal , Anas Salah , Amr S. Ghoneim

We report upon the results of a research and prototype building project \emph{Worldly~OCR} dedicated to developing new, more accurate image-to-text conversion software for several languages and writing systems. These include the cursive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-19 Marek Rychlik , Dwight Nwaigwe , Yan Han , Dylan Murphy