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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

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

The biggest challenge in the field of image processing is to recognize documents both in printed and handwritten format. Optical Character Recognition OCR is a type of document image analysis where scanned digital image that contains either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Nisha Vasudeva , Hem Jyotsana Parashar

Optical character recognition (OCR) technology has been widely used in various scenes, as shown in Figure 1. Designing a practical OCR system is still a meaningful but challenging task. In previous work, considering the efficiency and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Chenxia Li , Weiwei Liu , Ruoyu Guo , Xiaoting Yin , Kaitao Jiang , Yongkun Du , Yuning Du , Lingfeng Zhu , Baohua Lai , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to develop and evaluate rule-based algorithms to enhance the extraction of text data, including retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) values and other ganglion cell count (GCC) data, from Zeiss Cirrus…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-22 Iyad Majid , Youchen Victor Zhang , Robert Chang , Sophia Y. Wang

With the increasing prevalence of video recordings there is a growing need for tools that can maintain the privacy of those recorded. In this paper, we define an approach for redacting personally identifiable text from videos using a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Abhishek Mukhopadhyay , Shubham Agarwal , Patrick Dylan Zwick , Pradipta Biswas

Commercial OCR packages work best with high-quality scanned images. They often produce poor results when the image is degraded, either because the original itself was poor quality, or because of excessive photocopying. The ability to…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Roger T. Hartley , Kathleen Crumpton

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 research paper delves into the development of an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system for the recognition of Ashokan Brahmi characters using Convolutional Neural Networks. It utilizes a comprehensive dataset of character images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yash Agrawal , Srinidhi Balasubramanian , Rahul Meena , Rohail Alam , Himanshu Malviya , Rohini P

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a process of converting analogue documents into digital using document images. Currently, many commercial and non-commercial OCR systems exist for both handwritten and printed copies for different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Farisa Benta Safir , Abu Quwsar Ohi , M. F. Mridha , Muhammad Mostafa Monowar , Md. Abdul Hamid

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

With the advent of digital optical scanners, a lot of paper-based books, textbooks, magazines, articles, and documents are being transformed into an electronic version that can be manipulated by a computer. For this purpose, OCR, short for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Youssef Bassil , Mohammad Alwani

In this paper, we present an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system specifically designed for the accurate recognition and digitization of Greek polytonic texts. By leveraging the combined strengths of convolutional layers for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Perifanos Konstantinos , Goutsos Dionisis

The digitization of historical folkloristic materials presents unique challenges due to diverse text layouts, varying print and handwriting styles, and linguistic variations. This study explores different optical character recognition (OCR)…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Octavian M. Machidon , Alina L. Machidon

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

This paper proposes OCR++, an open-source framework designed for a variety of information extraction tasks from scholarly articles including metadata (title, author names, affiliation and e-mail), structure (section headings and body text,…

PDF is one of the most prominent data formats, making PDF parsing crucial for information extraction and retrieval, particularly with the rise of RAG systems. While various PDF parsing tools exist, their effectiveness across different…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Narayan S. Adhikari , Shradha Agarwal

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a popular technique for enhancing the reliability and utility of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding responses in external documents. Traditional RAG systems rely on Optical Character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-12 Alexander Most , Joseph Winjum , Ayan Biswas , Shawn Jones , Nishath Rajiv Ranasinghe , Dan O'Malley , Manish Bhattarai

Document parsing is now widely used in applications, such as large-scale document digitization, retrieval-augmented generation, and domain-specific pipelines in healthcare and education. Benchmarking these models is crucial for assessing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Deniz Yılmaz , Evren Ayberk Munis , Çağrı Toraman , Süha Kağan Köse , Burak Aktaş , Mehmet Can Baytekin , Bilge Kaan Görür

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