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Detection and recognition of text from scans and other images, commonly denoted as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is a widely used form of automated document processing with a number of methods available. Yet OCR systems still do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Krzysztof Olejniczak , Milan Šulc

Document comparison typically relies on optical character recognition (OCR) as its core technology. However, OCR requires the selection of appropriate language models for each document and the performance of multilingual or hybrid models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Doyoung Park , Naresh Reddy Yarram , Sunjin Kim , Minkyu Kim , Seongho Cho , Taehee Lee

This paper presents a complete Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for camera captured image/graphics embedded textual documents for handheld devices. At first, text regions are extracted and skew corrected. Then, these regions are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-09-16 Ayatullah Faruk Mollah , Nabamita Majumder , Subhadip Basu , Mita Nasipuri

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Optical character recognition (OCR) for historical documents is a complex procedure subject to a unique set of material issues, including inconsistencies in typefaces and low quality scanning.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

A Kannada OCR, named Lipi Gnani, has been designed and developed from scratch, with the motivation of it being able to convert printed text or poetry in Kannada script, without any restriction on vocabulary. The training and test sets have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-03 Shiva Kumar H R , Ramakrishnan A G

Object Recognition and Document Skew Estimation have come a long way in terms of performance and efficiency. New models follow one of two directions: improving performance using larger models, and improving efficiency using smaller models.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Lucas Wojcik , Luiz Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti

Thousands of users consult digital archives daily, but the information they can access is unrepresentative of the diversity of documentary history. The sequence-to-sequence architecture typically used for optical character recognition (OCR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jacob Carlson , Tom Bryan , Melissa Dell

There is a need for information retrieval from large collections of low-resolution (LR) binary document images, which can be found in digital libraries across the world, where the high-resolution (HR) counterpart is not available. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-07 Ram Krishna Pandey , K Vignesh , A G Ramakrishnan , Chandrahasa B

Recognition of ancient Tamil characters has always been a challenge for epigraphers. This is primarily because the language has evolved over the several centuries and the character set over this time has both expanded and diversified. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Lalitha Giridhar , Aishwarya Dharani and , Velmathi Guruviah

This study evaluates four open-source Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems which are Tesseract, EasyOCR, PaddleOCR, and TrOCR on real world food packaging images. The aim is to assess their ability to extract ingredient lists and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Mayimunah Nagayi , Alice Khan , Tamryn Frank , Rina Swart , Clement Nyirenda

Scientific knowledge is predominantly stored in books and scientific journals, often in the form of PDFs. However, the PDF format leads to a loss of semantic information, particularly for mathematical expressions. We propose Nougat (Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Lukas Blecher , Guillem Cucurull , Thomas Scialom , Robert Stojnic

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

Today all kind of information is getting digitized and along with all this digitization, the huge archive of various kinds of documents is being digitized too. We know that, Optical Character Recognition is the method through which,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-31 Md. Fahad Hasan , Tasmin Afroz , Sabir Ismail , Md. Saiful Islam

Solving the problem of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on printed text for Latin and its derivative scripts can now be considered settled due to the volumes of research done on English and other High-Resourced Languages (HRL). However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Nevidu Jayatilleke , Nisansa de Silva

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been widely used in various of application scenarios, such as office automation (OA) systems, factory automations, online educations, map productions etc. However, OCR is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuning Du , Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Xiaoting Yin , Weiwei Liu , Jun Zhou , Yifan Bai , Zilin Yu , Yehua Yang , Qingqing Dang , Haoshuang Wang

Most low-resource languages do not have the necessary resources to create even a substantial monolingual corpus. These languages may often be found in government proceedings but mainly in Portable Document Format (PDF) that contains legacy…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Charangan Vasantharajan , Laksika Tharmalingam , Uthayasanker Thayasivam

Document alignment and registration play a crucial role in numerous real-world applications, such as automated form processing, anomaly detection, and workflow automation. Traditional methods for document alignment rely on image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ross Greer , Alisha Ukani , Katherine Izhikevich , Earlence Fernandes , Stefan Savage , Alex C. Snoeren

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on historical printings is a challenging task mainly due to the complexity of the layout and the highly variant typography. Nevertheless, in the last few years great progress has been made in the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Christian Reul , Dennis Christ , Alexander Hartelt , Nico Balbach , Maximilian Wehner , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Christine Grundig , Andreas Büttner , Frank Puppe