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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

Many studies on (Offline) Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems have focused on building state-of-the-art models for line recognition on small corpora. However, adding HTR capability to a large scale multilingual OCR system poses new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-18 R. Reeve Ingle , Yasuhisa Fujii , Thomas Deselaers , Jonathan Baccash , Ashok C. Popat

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has become an essential field within pattern recognition and machine learning, with applications spanning historical document preservation to modern data entry and accessibility solutions. The complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Carlos Garrido-Munoz , Antonio Rios-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza

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

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

One of the factors limiting the performance of handwritten text recognition (HTR) for stenography is the small amount of annotated training data. To alleviate the problem of data scarcity, modern HTR methods often employ data augmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Raphaela Heil , Eva Breznik

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

Historical handwritten text recognition (HTR) is essential for unlocking the cultural and scholarly value of archival documents, yet digitization is often hindered by scarce transcriptions, linguistic variation, and highly diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Erez Meoded

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

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

Handwriting recognition has seen significant success with the use of deep learning. However, a persistent shortcoming of neural networks is that they are not well-equipped to deal with shifting data distributions. In the field of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Tobias van der Werff , Maruf A. Dhali , Lambert Schomaker

Handwritten text recognition has been developed rapidly in the recent years, following the rise of deep learning and its applications. Though deep learning methods provide notable boost in performance concerning text recognition,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 George Retsinas , Giorgos Sfikas , Basilis Gatos , Christophoros Nikou

Historical documents present many challenges for offline handwriting recognition systems, among them, the segmentation and labeling steps. Carefully annotated textlines are needed to train an HTR system. In some scenarios, transcripts are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-20 Edgard Chammas , Chafic Mokbel , Laurence Likforman-Sulem

A handwritten word recognition system comes with issues such as lack of large and diverse datasets. It is necessary to resolve such issues since millions of official documents can be digitized by training deep learning models using a large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Mst Shapna Akter , Hossain Shahriar , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Nova Ahmed , Carson Leung

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

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) in free-layout pages is a challenging image understanding task that can provide a relevant boost to the digitization of handwritten documents and reuse of their content. The task becomes even more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Silvia Cascianelli , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) remains a challenging problem to date, largely due to the varying writing styles that exist amongst us. Prior works however generally operate with the assumption that there is a limited number of styles,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Ayan Kumar Bhunia , Shuvozit Ghose , Amandeep Kumar , Pinaki Nath Chowdhury , Aneeshan Sain , Yi-Zhe Song

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

Scene text recognition (STR) and handwritten text recognition (HTR) face significant challenges in accurately transcribing textual content from images into machine-readable formats. Conventional OCR models often predict transcriptions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Xu Yao , Lei Kang

The reliance of humans over machines has never been so high such that from object classification in photographs to adding sound to silent movies everything can be performed with the help of deep learning and machine learning algorithms.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Samay Pashine , Ritik Dixit , Rishika Kushwah
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