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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 general detection-based approach to text line recognition, be it printed (OCR) or handwritten (HTR), with Latin, Chinese, or ciphered characters. Detection-based approaches have until now been largely discarded for HTR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Raphael Baena , Syrine Kalleli , Mathieu Aubry

A machine can understand human activities, and the meaning of signs can help overcome the communication barriers between the inaudible and ordinary people. Sign Language Recognition (SLR) is a fascinating research area and a crucial task…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 M. Madhiarasan , Partha Pratim Roy

Handwritten Digit Recognition (HDR) is one of the most challenging tasks in the domain of Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Irrespective of language, there are some inherent challenges of HDR, which mostly arise due to the variations in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 A. B. M. Ashikur Rahman , Md. Bakhtiar Hasan , Sabbir Ahmed , Tasnim Ahmed , Md. Hamjajul Ashmafee , Mohammad Ridwan Kabir , Md. Hasanul Kabir

The arrival of handwriting recognition technologies offers new possibilities for research in heritage studies. However, it is now necessary to reflect on the experiences and the practices developed by research teams. Our use of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Beatrice Couture , Farah Verret , Maxime Gohier , Dominique Deslandres

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 evaluation of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models during their development is straightforward: because HTR is a supervised problem, the usual data split into training, validation, and test data sets allows the evaluation of models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Phillip Benjamin Ströbel , Simon Clematide , Martin Volk , Raphael Schwitter , Tobias Hodel , David Schoch

Text Recognition (TR) refers to the research area that focuses on retrieving textual information from images, a topic that has seen significant advancements in the last decade due to the use of Deep Neural Networks (DNN). However, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Carlos Penarrubia , Jose J. Valero-Mas , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

The history of text can be traced back over thousands of years. Rich and precise semantic information carried by text is important in a wide range of vision-based application scenarios. Therefore, text recognition in natural scenes has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Xiaoxue Chen , Lianwen Jin , Yuanzhi Zhu , Canjie Luo , Tianwei Wang

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

We explore the application of Vision Transformer (ViT) for handwritten text recognition. The limited availability of labeled data in this domain poses challenges for achieving high performance solely relying on ViT. Previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Yuting Li , Dexiong Chen , Tinglong Tang , Xi Shen

Handwriting recognition technology allows recognizing a written text from a given data. The recognition task can target letters, symbols, or words, and the input data can be a digital image or recorded by various sensors. A wide range of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hilda Azimi , Steven Chang , Jonathan Gold , Koray Karabina

Recognition of handwritten words continues to be an important problem in document analysis and recognition. Existing approaches extract hand-engineered features from word images--which can perform poorly with new data sets. Recently, deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-06 Gang Chen , Yawei Li , Sargur N. Srihari

Handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR) has been an active research topic for decades. However, most previous studies solely focus on the recognition of cropped text line images, ignoring the error caused by text line detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Dezhi Peng , Lianwen Jin , Yuliang Liu , Canjie Luo , Songxuan Lai

Handwritten Text Line Segmentation (HTLS) is a low-level but important task for many higher-level document processing tasks like handwritten text recognition. It is often formulated in terms of semantic segmentation or object detection in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Deng Li , Yue Wu , Yicong Zhou

Text Detection and recognition is a one of the important aspect of image processing. This paper analyzes and compares the methods to handle this task. It summarizes the fundamental problems and enumerates factors that need consideration…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Tanvi Goswami , Zankhana Barad , Prof. Nikita P. Desai

This article presents and validates an ideal, four-stage workflow for the high-accuracy transcription and analysis of challenging medieval legal documents. The process begins with a specialized Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model,…

Digital Libraries · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Joshua D. Isom

Styled Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) has received significant attention in recent years, propelled by the success of learning-based solutions employing GANs, Transformers, and, preliminarily, Diffusion Models. Despite this surge in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Bram Vanherle , Vittorio Pippi , Silvia Cascianelli , Nick Michiels , Frank Van Reeth , Rita Cucchiara

Styled Handwritten Text Generation (Styled HTG) is an important task in document analysis, aiming to generate text images with the handwriting of given reference images. In recent years, there has been significant progress in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Vittorio Pippi , Fabio Quattrini , Silvia Cascianelli , Rita Cucchiara

This paper deals with the task of practical and open source Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) on German medieval manuscripts. We report on our efforts to construct mixed recognition models which can be applied out-of-the-box without any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Christian Reul , Stefan Tomasek , Florian Langhanki , Uwe Springmann