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Offline handwritten text recognition from images is an important problem for enterprises attempting to digitize large volumes of handmarked scanned documents/reports. Deep recurrent models such as Multi-dimensional LSTMs have been shown to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Arindam Chowdhury , Lovekesh Vig

Unconstrained handwritten text recognition remains challenging for computer vision systems. Paragraph text recognition is traditionally achieved by two models: the first one for line segmentation and the second one for text line…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Denis Coquenet , Clément Chatelain , Thierry Paquet

HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects. The performance of these models, often quite high, relies on manual transcription and numerous handwritten documents. Although the method has proven…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Lucas Noëmie , Clément Salah , Chahan Vidal-Gorène

This study thoroughly investigates how well deep learning models can recognize Arabic handwritten text for person biometric identification. It compares three advanced architectures -- ResNet50, MobileNetV2, and EfficientNetB7 -- using three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Mazen Balat , Youssef Mohamed , Ahmed Heakl , Ahmed Zaky

Despite considerable progress in handwritten text recognition, paragraph-level handwritten text recognition, especially in low-resource languages, such as Hindi, Urdu and similar scripts, remains a challenging problem. These languages,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Sayantan Dey , Alireza Alaei , Partha Pratim Roy

In This paper we presented new approach for cursive Arabic text recognition system. The objective is to propose methodology analytical offline recognition of handwritten Arabic for rapid implementation. The first part in the writing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-09-11 Ahlam Maqqor , Akram Halli , Khaled Satori

We implemented a high-performance optical character recognition model for classical handwritten documents using data augmentation with highly variable cropping within the document region. Optical character recognition in handwritten…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Joonmo Ahna , Taehong Jang , Quan Fengnyu , Hyungil Lee , Jaehyuk Lee , Sojung Lucia Kim

This report explores the latest advances in the field of digital document recognition. With the focus on printed document imagery, we discuss the major developments in optical character recognition (OCR) and document image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Eugene Borovikov

Text Recognition is one of the challenging tasks of computer vision with considerable practical interest. Optical character recognition (OCR) enables different applications for automation. This project focuses on word detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ebin Zacharias , Martin Teuchler , Bénédicte Bernier

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

We present Arabic-Nougat, a suite of OCR models for converting Arabic book pages into structured Markdown text. Based on Meta's Nougat architecture, Arabic-Nougat includes three specialized models: arabic-small-nougat, arabic-base-nougat,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Mohamed Rashad

Teaching Computer Science (CS) by having students write programs by hand on paper has key pedagogical advantages: It allows focused learning and requires careful thinking compared to the use of Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Md Sazzad Islam , Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya , Christopher D. Manning , Chris Piech

Arabic dialect identification is a specific task of natural language processing, aiming to automatically predict the Arabic dialect of a given text. Arabic dialect identification is the first step in various natural language processing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Maha J. Althobaiti

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 paper explores the use of a learned classifier for post-OCR text correction. Experiments with the Arabic language show that this approach, which integrates a weighted confusion matrix and a shallow language model, improves the vast…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Ido Kissos , Nachum Dershowitz

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

A large number of publications are available for the Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Significant researches, as well as articles are present for the Latin, Chinese and Japanese scripts. Arabic script is also one of mature script from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-12-16 Dil Nawaz Hakro , A. Z. Talib , Zeeshan Bhatti , G. N. Moja

Offline handwriting recognition (HWR) has improved significantly with the advent of deep learning architectures in recent years. Nevertheless, it remains a challenging problem and practical applications often rely on post-processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Andrey Totev , Tomas Ward

Cross-Lingual SynthDocs is a large-scale synthetic corpus designed to address the scarcity of Arabic resources for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Understanding (DU). The dataset comprises over 2.5 million of samples,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Haneen Al-Homoud , Asma Ibrahim , Murtadha Al-Jubran , Fahad Al-Otaibi , Yazeed Al-Harbi , Daulet Toibazar , Kesen Wang , Pedro J. Moreno

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