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Given the ubiquity of handwritten documents in human transactions, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of documents have invaluable practical worth. Optical character recognition is a science that enables to translate various types of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Jamshed Memon , Maira Sami , Rizwan Ahmed Khan

The segmentation-free research efforts for addressing handwritten text recognition can be divided into three categories: connectionist temporal classification (CTC), hidden Markov model and encoder-decoder methods. In this paper, inspired…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Zi-Rui Wang

In this paper, we face the problem of offline handwritten text recognition (HTR) in historical documents when few labeled samples are available and some of them contain errors in the train set. Three main contributions are developed. First…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 José Carlos Aradillas , Juan José Murillo-Fuentes , Pablo M. Olmos

We present a new handwritten text segmentation method by training a convolutional neural network (CNN) in an end-to-end manner. Many conventional methods addressed this problem by extracting connected components and then classifying them.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-13 Junho Jo , Hyung Il Koo , Jae Woong Soh , Nam Ik Cho

This paper proposes a handwritten text recognition(HTR) system that outperforms current state-of-the-artmethods. The comparison was carried out on three of themost frequently used in HTR task datasets, namely Ben-tham, IAM, and Saint Gall.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Alex Shonenkov , Denis Karachev , Maxim Novopoltsev , Mark Potanin , Denis Dimitrov

The pressing need for digitization of historical documents has led to a strong interest in designing computerised image processing methods for automatic handwritten text recognition. However, not much attention has been paid on studying the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Liang Cheng , Jonas Frankemölle , Adam Axelsson , Ekta Vats

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is a task of central importance in the field of document image understanding. State-of-the-art methods for HTR require the use of extensive annotated sets for training, making them impractical for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Petros Georgoulas Wraight , Giorgos Sfikas , Ioannis Kordonis , Petros Maragos , George Retsinas

Handwritten Numeral recognition plays a vital role in postal automation services especially in countries like India where multiple languages and scripts are used Discrete Hidden Markov Model (HMM) and hybrid of Neural Network (NN) and HMM…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2012-03-20 Anshuman Sharma

The continually increasing number of documents produced each year necessitates ever improving information processing methods for searching, retrieving, and organizing text. Central to these information processing methods is document…

Visual text, a pivotal element in both document and scene images, speaks volumes and attracts significant attention in the computer vision domain. Beyond visual text detection and recognition, the field of visual text processing has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Yan Shu , Weichao Zeng , Zhenhang Li , Fangmin Zhao , Yu Zhou

The problem of converting images of text into plain text is a widely researched topic in both academia and industry. Arabic handwritten Text Recognation (AHTR) poses additional challenges due to diverse handwriting styles and limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Alhossien Waly , Bassant Tarek , Ali Feteha , Rewan Yehia , Gasser Amr , Ahmed Fares

In this paper, we approach the problem of segmentation-free query-by-string word spotting for handwritten documents. In other words, we use methods inspired from computer vision and machine learning to search for words in large collections…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-18 Tomas Wilkinson , Jonas Lindström , Anders Brun

Handwritten Text Recognition has achieved an impressive performance in public benchmarks. However, due to the high inter- and intra-class variability between handwriting styles, such recognizers need to be trained using huge volumes of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Lei Kang , Pau Riba , Marçal Rusiñol , Alicia Fornés , Mauricio Villegas

The paper approaches the task of handwritten text recognition (HTR) with attentional encoder-decoder networks trained on sequences of characters, rather than words. We experiment on lines of text from popular handwriting datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Jason Poulos , Rafael Valle

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

While analyzing scanned documents, handwritten text can overlap with printed text. This overlap causes difficulties during the optical character recognition (OCR) and digitization process of documents, and subsequently, hurts downstream NLP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Sina Gholamian , Ali Vahdat

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

Handling large corpuses of documents is of significant importance in many fields, no more so than in the areas of crime investigation and defence, where an organisation may be presented with a large volume of scanned documents which need to…

Encoded (or ciphered) manuscripts are a special type of historical documents that contain encrypted text. The automatic recognition of this kind of documents is challenging because: 1) the cipher alphabet changes from one document to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Mohamed Ali Souibgui , Alicia Fornés , Yousri Kessentini , Crina Tudor

Deep learning based methods have been dominating the text recognition tasks in different and multilingual scenarios. The offline handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR) is one of the most challenging tasks because it involves thousands…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Brian Liu , Xianchao Xu , Yu Zhang