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Optical character recognition (OCR) is a widely used pattern recognition application in numerous domains. There are several feature-rich, general-purpose OCR solutions available for consumers, which can provide moderate to excellent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ayantha Randika , Nilanjan Ray , Xiao Xiao , Allegra Latimer

Reading text is one of the essential needs of the visually impaired people. We developed a mobile system that can read Turkish scene and book text, using a fast gradient-based multi-scale text detection algorithm for real-time operation and…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Muhammet Bastan , Hilal Kandemir , Busra Canturk

In this paper, we address the task of Optical Character Recognition(OCR) for the Telugu script. We present an end-to-end framework that segments the text image, classifies the characters and extracts lines using a language model. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-16 Rakesh Achanta , Trevor Hastie

Intensive research has been done on optical character recognition ocr and a large number of articles have been published on this topic during the last few decades. Many commercial OCR systems are now available in the market, but most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 K. Indira , S. Sethu Selvi

This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hylke Westerdijk , Ben Blankenborg , Khondoker Ittehadul Islam

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby , Hasmot Ali , Md. Majedul Islam , Sheikh Abujar , Fuad Rahman

While OCR has been used in various applications, its output is not always accurate, leading to misfit words. This research work focuses on improving the optical character recognition (OCR) with ML techniques with integration of OCR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Abhishek Bamotra , Phani Krishna Uppala

This paper presents an end-to-end deep convolutional recurrent neural network solution for Khmer optical character recognition (OCR) task. The proposed solution uses a sequence-to-sequence (Seq2Seq) architecture with attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Rina Buoy , Sokchea Kor , Nguonly Taing

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been a topic of interest for many years. It is defined as the process of digitizing a document image into its constituent characters. Despite decades of intense research, developing OCR with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Noman Islam , Zeeshan Islam , Nazia Noor

We present an end-to-end trainable approach for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on printed documents. Specifically, we propose a model that predicts a) a two-dimensional character grid (\emph{chargrid}) representation of a document…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Christian Reisswig , Anoop R Katti , Marco Spinaci , Johannes Höhne

In this paper I have proposed a method to find the major pixel intensity inside the text and thresholding an image accordingly to make it easier to be used for optical character recognition (OCR) models. In our method, instead of editing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Rohan Lal Kshetry

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is crucial to the National Library of Norway's (NLN) digitisation process as it converts scanned documents into machine-readable text. However, for the S\'ami documents in NLN's collection, the OCR…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Tita Enstad , Trond Trosterud , Marie Iversdatter Røsok , Yngvil Beyer , Marie Roald

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

The success rates of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems for printed Malayalam documents is quite impressive with the state of the art accuracy levels in the range of 85-95% for various. However for real applications, further…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-05-09 Sajilal Divakaran

In this paper we evaluate Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of 19th century Fraktur scripts without book-specific training using mixed models, i.e. models trained to recognize a variety of fonts and typesets from previously unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-09 Christian Reul , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Frank Puppe

Many languages have vast amounts of handwritten texts, such as ancient scripts about folktale stories and historical narratives or contemporary documents and letters. Digitization of those texts has various applications, such as daily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Ameer Majeed , Hossein Hassani

Script identification and text recognition are some of the major domains in the application of Artificial Intelligence. In this era of digitalization, the use of digital note-taking has become a common practice. Still, conventional methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Sidhantha Poddar , Rohan Gupta

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

Handwritten character recognition is a hot topic for research nowadays. If we can convert a handwritten piece of paper into a text-searchable document using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technique, we can easily understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Md Tanvir Rouf Shawon , Raihan Tanvir , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam

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