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Deep learning based methods have been dominating the text recognition tasks in different and multilingual scenarios. The offline handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR) is one of the most challenging tasks because it involves thousands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Brian Liu , Xianchao Xu , Yu Zhang

Handwritten Text Recognition remains challenging due to the limited data, high writing style variance, and scripts with complex diacritics. Existing approaches, though partially address these issues, often struggle to generalize without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Pham Thach Thanh Truc , Dang Hoai Nam , Huynh Tong Dang Khoa , Vo Nguyen Le Duy

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a task of central importance in the field of document image understanding. State-of-the-art methods for HTR require the use of extensive annotated sets for training, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petros Georgoulas Wraight , Giorgos Sfikas , Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos , George Retsinas

Handwritten text recognition has been widely studied in the last decades for its numerous applications. Nowadays, the state-of-the-art approach consists in a three-step process. The document is segmented into text lines, which are then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Denis Coquenet

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

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

This paper introduces a novel method to fine-tune handwriting recognition systems based on Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN). Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are good at modeling long sequences but they tend to overfit over time. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Edgard Chammas , Chafic Mokbel

This paper proposes a handwritten text recognition(HTR) system that outperforms current state-of-the-artmethods. The comparison was carried out on three of themost frequently used in HTR task datasets, namely Ben-tham, IAM, and Saint Gall.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Alex Shonenkov , Denis Karachev , Maxim Novopoltsev , Mark Potanin , Denis Dimitrov

While state-of-the-art Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models perform well on standard benchmarks, they frequently struggle with writers exhibiting highly specific styles that are underrepresented in the training data. To handle unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tom Simon , Stephane Nicolas , Pierrick Tranouez , Clement Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

Deep learning expresses a category of machine learning algorithms that have the capability to combine raw inputs into intermediate features layers. These deep learning algorithms have demonstrated great results in different fields. Deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Sukhdeep Singh , Sudhir Rohilla , Anuj Sharma

The paper approaches the task of handwritten text recognition (HTR) with attentional encoder-decoder networks trained on sequences of characters, rather than words. We experiment on lines of text from popular handwriting datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jason Poulos , Rafael Valle

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is crucial for document digitization, but handwritten data can contain user-identifiable features, like unique writing styles, posing privacy risks. Regulations such as the ``right to be forgotten''…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Lei Kang , Xuanshuo Fu , Lluis Gomez , Alicia Fornés , Ernest Valveny , Dimosthenis Karatzas

Recurrent neural network (RNN) and connectionist temporal classification (CTC) have showed successes in many sequence labeling tasks with the strong ability of dealing with the problems where the alignment between the inputs and the target…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Hongjian Zhan , Qingqing Wang , Yue Lu

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) in free-layout pages is a challenging image understanding task that can provide a relevant boost to the digitization of handwritten documents and reuse of their content. The task becomes even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Silvia Cascianelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Offline handwritten text recognition from images is an important problem for enterprises attempting to digitize large volumes of handmarked scanned documents/reports. Deep recurrent models such as Multi-dimensional LSTMs have been shown to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Arindam Chowdhury , Lovekesh Vig

The advent of recurrent neural networks for handwriting recognition marked an important milestone reaching impressive recognition accuracies despite the great variability that we observe across different writing styles. Sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

The primary challenge for handwriting recognition systems lies in managing long-range contextual dependencies, an issue that traditional models often struggle with. To mitigate it, attention mechanisms have recently been employed to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Sara Ferro , Alessandro Torcinovich , Arianna Traviglia , Marcello Pelillo

Handwritten Text Recognition has achieved an impressive performance in public benchmarks. However, due to the high inter- and intra-class variability between handwriting styles, such recognizers need to be trained using huge volumes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

The arrival of handwriting recognition technologies offers new possibilities for research in heritage studies. However, it is now necessary to reflect on the experiences and the practices developed by research teams. Our use of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Beatrice Couture , Farah Verret , Maxime Gohier , Dominique Deslandres

In many machine learning tasks, a large general dataset and a small specialized dataset are available. In such situations, various domain adaptation methods can be used to adapt a general model to the target dataset. We show that in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Jan Kohút , Michal Hradiš