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Contrary to popular belief, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) remains a challenging problem when text occurs in unconstrained environments, like natural scenes, due to geometrical distortions, complex backgrounds, and diverse fonts. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Marcin Namysl , Iuliu Konya

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

Extracting fine-grained OCR text from aged documents in diacritic languages remains challenging due to unexpected artifacts, time-induced degradation, and lack of datasets. While standalone spell correction approaches have been proposed,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Thao Do , Dinh Phu Tran , An Vo , Daeyoung Kim

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

Substantial amounts of work are required to clean large collections of digitized books for NLP analysis, both because of the presence of errors in the scanned text and the presence of duplicate volumes in the corpora. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Allen Kim , Charuta Pethe , Naoya Inoue , Steve Skiena

Much of the existing linguistic data in many languages of the world is locked away in non-digitized books and documents. Optical character recognition (OCR) can be used to produce digitized text, and previous work has demonstrated the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Shruti Rijhwani , Daisy Rosenblum , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Graham Neubig

Industrial Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems depend on optical character recognition (OCR) to transform visual documents into text. Existing OCR benchmarks rely on character-level metrics, which inadequately measure downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lin Sun , Wang Dexian , Jingang Huang , Linglin Zhang , Change Jia , Zhengwei Cheng , Xiangzheng Zhang

Benefiting from transformer-based pre-trained language models, neural ranking models have made significant progress. More recently, the advent of multilingual pre-trained language models provides great support for designing neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zhiqi Huang , Puxuan Yu , James Allan

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

Current OCR systems are based on deep learning models trained on large amounts of data. Although they have shown some ability to generalize to unseen data, especially in detection tasks, they can struggle with recognizing low-quality data.…

Typical text recognition methods rely on an encoder-decoder structure, in which the encoder extracts features from an image, and the decoder produces recognized text from these features. In this study, we propose a simpler and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Masato Fujitake

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

The digitisation of historical print media archives is crucial for increasing accessibility to contemporary records. However, the process of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) used to convert physical records to digital text is prone to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Jonathan Bourne

Despite significant advances in document understanding, determining the correct orientation of scanned or photographed documents remains a critical pre-processing step in the real world settings. Accurate rotation correction is essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Suranjan Goswami , Abhinav Ravi , Raja Kolla , Ali Faraz , Shaharukh Khan , Akash , Chandra Khatri , Shubham Agarwal

In this paper, we create benchmarks and assess the effectiveness of error correction methods for Japanese vouchers in OCR (Optical Character Recognition) systems. It is essential for automation processing to correctly recognize scanned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Masato Fujitake

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

Conventional optical character recognition (OCR) techniques segmented each character and then recognized. This made them prone to error in character segmentation, and devoid of context to exploit language models. Advances in sequence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shashank Vempati , Nishit Anand , Gaurav Talebailkar , Arpan Garai , Chetan Arora

Constructing a highly accurate handwritten OCR system requires large amounts of representative training data, which is both time-consuming and expensive to collect. To mitigate the issue, we propose a denoising diffusion probabilistic model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Haisong Ding , Bozhi Luan , Dongnan Gui , Kai Chen , Qiang Huo

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 the largest publicly available synthetic OCR benchmark dataset for Indic languages. The collection contains a total of 90k images and their ground truth for 23 Indic languages. OCR model validation in Indic languages require a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Naresh Saini , Promodh Pinto , Aravinth Bheemaraj , Deepak Kumar , Dhiraj Daga , Saurabh Yadav , Srihari Nagaraj