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Offline handwritten text line recognition is a hard task that requires both an efficient optical character recognizer and language model. Handwriting recognition state of the art methods are based on Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) recurrent…

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Manual digitisation of structured handwritten documents is slow and costly. We benchmark 17 leading frontier multi-modal large language models and open-source models against a very challenging real-world medical form that mixes dates;…

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Modern astronomical surveys deliver immense volumes of transient detections, yet distinguishing real astrophysical signals (for example, explosive events) from bogus imaging artefacts remains a challenge. Convolutional neural networks are…

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Handwritten text recognition is an open problem of great interest in the area of automatic document image analysis. The transcription of handwritten content present in digitized documents is significant in analyzing historical archives or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Jorge Sueiras

Recent advancements in Deep Learning-based Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) have led to models with remarkable performance on both modern and historical manuscripts in large benchmark datasets. Nonetheless, those models struggle to obtain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

The Transformer has quickly become the dominant architecture for various pattern recognition tasks due to its capacity for long-range representation. However, transformers are data-hungry models and need large datasets for training. In…

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This article focuses on the transcription of medieval manuscripts. Whereas problems of transcription have long interested medievalists, few workable options in the era of printed editions were available besides normalisation. The automation…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Estelle Guéville , David Joseph Wrisley

Interest is increasing among political scientists in leveraging the extensive information available in images. However, the challenge of interpreting these images lies in the need for specialized knowledge in computer vision and access to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Yu Wang

Historical handwritten text recognition (HTR) is essential for unlocking the cultural and scholarly value of archival documents, yet digitization is often hindered by scarce transcriptions, linguistic variation, and highly diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Erez Meoded

The forensic attribution of the handwriting in a digitized document to multiple scribes is a challenging problem of high dimensionality. Unique handwriting styles may be dissimilar in a blend of several factors including character size,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-30 Sriparna Majumdar , Aaron Brick

Digitized archives contain and preserve the knowledge of generations of scholars in millions of documents. The size of these archives calls for automatic analysis since a manual analysis by specialists is often too expensive. In this paper,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-05 Christian Bartz , Hendrik Rätz , Christoph Meinel

Historical documents frequently suffer from damage and inconsistencies, including missing or illegible text resulting from issues such as holes, ink problems, and storage damage. These missing portions or gaps are referred to as lacunae. In…

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Extracting Handwritten text is one of the most important components of digitizing information and making it available for large scale setting. Handwriting Optical Character Reader (OCR) is a research problem in computer vision and natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Mohammad Daniyal Shaiq , Musa Dildar Ahmed Cheema , Ali Kamal

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has become an essential field within pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning historical document preservation to modern data entry and accessibility solutions. The complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Antonio Rios-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

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

While there is much excitement about the potential of large multimodal models (LMM), a comprehensive evaluation is critical to establish their true capabilities and limitations. In support of this aim, we evaluate two state-of-the-art LMMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-15 Mengchen Liu , Chongyan Chen , Danna Gurari

Handwriting Recognition enables a person to scribble something on a piece of paper and then convert it into text. If we look into the practical reality there are enumerable styles in which a character may be written. These styles can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-04-20 Rahul Kala , Harsh Vazirani , Anupam Shukla , Ritu Tiwari

This study investigates the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly GPT-4o, for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in low-resource scripts such as Urdu, Albanian, and Tajik, with English serving as a benchmark. Using a…

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