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Handwritten character recognition (HCR) remains a challenging pattern recognition problem despite decades of research, and lacks research on script independent recognition techniques. {\color{black}This is mainly because of similar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Vinod Kumar Chauhan , Sukhdeep Singh , Anuj Sharma

Transliteration is a task in the domain of NLP where the output word is a similar-sounding word written using the letters of any foreign language. Today this system has been developed for several language pairs that involve English as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yash Raj , Bhavesh Laddagiri

This paper presents the first end-to-end pipeline for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for Old Nepali, a historically significant but low-resource language. We adopt a line-level transcription approach and systematically explore…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Anjali Sarawgi , Esteban Garces Arias , Christof Zotter

Script identification and text recognition are some of the major domains in the application of Artificial Intelligence. In this era of digitalization, the use of digital note-taking has become a common practice. Still, conventional methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Sidhantha Poddar , Rohan Gupta

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

Despite Bengali being the sixth most spoken language in the world, handwritten text recognition (HTR) systems for Bengali remain severely underdeveloped. The complexity of Bengali script--featuring conjuncts, diacritics, and highly variable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Md. Mahmudul Hasan , Ahmed Nesar Tahsin Choudhury , Mahmudul Hasan , Md. Mosaddek Khan

A considerable amount of success has been achieved in developing monolingual OCR systems for Indic scripts. But in a country like India, where multi-script scenario is prevalent, identifying scripts beforehand becomes obligatory. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-17 Pawan Kumar Singh , Supratim Das , Ram Sarkar , Mita Nasipuri

Handwriting text recognition (HTR) remains a challenging task. Existing approaches require fine-tuning on labeled data, which is impractical to obtain for real-world problems, or rely on zero-shot tools such as OCR engines and multi-modal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Benjamin Gutteridge , Matthew Thomas Jackson , Toni Kukurin , Xiaowen Dong

Handwritten character recognition is always a frontier area of research in the field of pattern recognition and image processing and there is a large demand for OCR on hand written documents. Even though, sufficient studies have performed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-07 John Jomy , K. V. Pramod , Balakrishnan Kannan

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is an open problem at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language Processing. The main challenges, when dealing with historical manuscripts, are due to the preservation of the paper support,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Silvia Cascianelli , Vittorio Pippi , Martin Maarand , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Christopher Kermorvant , Rita Cucchiara

Recent advancements in handwritten text recognition (HTR) have enabled the effective conversion of handwritten text to digital formats. However, achieving robust recognition across diverse writing styles remains challenging. Traditional HTR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Wenhao Gu , Li Gu , Ching Yee Suen , Yang Wang

We introduce a new dataset for offline Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) from images of Bangla scripts comprising words, lines, and document-level annotations. The BN-HTRd dataset is based on the BBC Bangla News corpus, meant to act as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Md. Ataur Rahman , Nazifa Tabassum , Mitu Paul , Riya Pal , Mohammad Khairul Islam

India is a multi-lingual country where Roman script is often used alongside different Indic scripts in a text document. To develop a script specific handwritten Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system, it is therefore necessary to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-03-25 Ram Sarkar , Nibaran Das , Subhadip Basu , Mahantapas Kundu , Mita Nasipuri , Dipak Kumar Basu

Text recognition remains a fundamental and extensively researched topic in computer vision, largely owing to its wide array of commercial applications. The challenging nature of the very problem however dictated a fragmentation of research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Aneeshan Sain , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Yi-Zhe Song

Offline Chinese handwriting text recognition is a long-standing research topic in the field of pattern recognition. In previous studies, text detection and recognition are separated, which leads to the fact that text recognition is highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Zhihao Wang , Yanwei Yu , Yibo Wang , Haixu Long , Fazheng Wang

The paper discusses an approach to decipher large collections of handwritten index cards of historical dictionaries. Our study provides a working solution that reads the cards, and links their lemmas to a searchable list of dictionary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Jan Idziak , Artjoms Šeļa , Michał Woźniak , Albert Leśniak , Joanna Byszuk , Maciej Eder

The digitization of historical manuscripts presents significant challenges for Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems, particularly when dealing with small, author-specific collections that diverge from the training data distributions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Vittorio Pippi , Konstantina Nikolaidou , Silvia Cascianelli , George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Rita Cucchiara , Marcus Liwicki

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is still a challenging problem because it must deal with two important difficulties: the variability among writing styles, and the scarcity of labelled data. To alleviate such problems, synthetic data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Lei Kang , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Pau Riba , Mauricio Villegas

Recent progress in deep learning has led to the development of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems which perform remarkably well. Most research has been around recurrent networks as well as complex gated layers which make the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Kartik Chaudhary , Raghav Bali

Intensive research has been done on optical character recognition ocr and a large number of articles have been published on this topic during the last few decades. Many commercial OCR systems are now available in the market, but most of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-08 K. Indira , S. Sethu Selvi