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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is the process of extracting digitized text from images of scanned documents. While OCR systems have already matured in many languages, they still have shortcomings in cursive languages with overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Hussein Osman , Karim Zaghw , Mostafa Hazem , Seifeldin Elsehely

Optical character recognition (OCR) is a vital process that involves the extraction of handwritten or printed text from scanned or printed images, converting it into a format that can be understood and processed by machines. This enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mahmoud SalahEldin Kasem , Mohamed Mahmoud , Hyun-Soo Kang

The Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been widely used in various of application scenarios, such as office automation (OA) systems, factory automations, online educations, map productions etc. However, OCR is still a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-16 Yuning Du , Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Xiaoting Yin , Weiwei Liu , Jun Zhou , Yifan Bai , Zilin Yu , Yehua Yang , Qingqing Dang , Haoshuang Wang

Optical character recognition (OCR) methods have been applied to diverse tasks, e.g., street view text recognition and document analysis. Recently, zero-shot OCR has piqued the interest of the research community because it considers a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Xiaolei Diao , Daqian Shi , Jian Li , Lida Shi , Mingzhe Yue , Ruihua Qi , Chuntao Li , Hao Xu

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

Handwriting recognition is of crucial importance to both Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and paperwork digitization. In the general field of Optical Character Recognition (OCR), handwritten Chinese character recognition faces tremendous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Boxiang Dong , Aparna S. Varde , Danilo Stevanovic , Jiayin Wang , Liang Zhao

Character recognition is the fundamental part of an optical character recognition (OCR) system. Word recognition, sentence transcription, document digitization, and language processing are some of the higher-order activities that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mirza Raquib , Asif Pervez Polok , Kedar Nath Biswas , Farida Siddiqi Prity , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

While Vision-language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong semantic capabilities, their ability to interpret the underlying geometric structure of visual information is less explored. Pictographic characters, which combine visual form…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Zihao Wan , Pau Tong Lin Xu , Fuwen Luo , Ziyue Wang , Peng Li , Yang Liu

Latin has historically led the state-of-the-art in handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) research. Adapting existing systems from Latin to alpha-syllabary languages is particularly challenging due to a sharp contrast between their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Samiul Alam , Tahsin Reasat , Asif Shahriyar Sushmit , Sadi Mohammad Siddiquee , Fuad Rahman , Mahady Hasan , Ahmed Imtiaz Humayun

Handwritten character recognition is a hot topic for research nowadays. If we can convert a handwritten piece of paper into a text-searchable document using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technique, we can easily understand the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-26 Md Tanvir Rouf Shawon , Raihan Tanvir , Md. Golam Rabiul Alam

The flourishing blossom of deep learning has witnessed the rapid development of Chinese character recognition. However, it remains a great challenge that the characters for testing may have different distributions from those of the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Haiyang Yu , Jingye Chen , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

In this paper, we address the task of Optical Character Recognition(OCR) for the Telugu script. We present an end-to-end framework that segments the text image, classifies the characters and extracts lines using a language model. The…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-16 Rakesh Achanta , Trevor Hastie

Optical character recognition (OCR) has advanced rapidly with deep learning and multimodal models, yet most methods focus on well-resourced scripts such as Latin and Chinese. Ethnic minority languages remain underexplored due to complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Bonan Liu , Zeyu Zhang , Bingbing Meng , Han Wang , Hanshuo Zhang , Chengping Wang , Daji Ergu , Ying Cai

Ancient manuscripts are the primary source of ancient linguistic corpora. However, many ancient manuscripts exhibit duplications due to unintentional repeated publication or deliberate forgery. The Dead Sea Scrolls, for example, include…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Chongsheng Zhang , Shuwen Wu , Yingqi Chen , Yi Men , Gaojuan Fan , Matthias Aßenmacher , Christian Heumann , João Gama

Optical character recognition (OCR) and document understanding systems increasingly rely on large vision and vision-language models, yet evaluation remains centered on modern, Western, and institutional documents. This emphasis masks system…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Fitsum Sileshi Beyene , Christopher L. Dancy

Conventional optical character recognition (OCR) techniques segmented each character and then recognized. This made them prone to error in character segmentation, and devoid of context to exploit language models. Advances in sequence to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Shashank Vempati , Nishit Anand , Gaurav Talebailkar , Arpan Garai , Chetan Arora

This study investigates the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly GPT-4o, for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in low-resource scripts such as Urdu, Albanian, and Tajik, with English serving as a benchmark. Using a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Muhammad Abdullah Sohail , Salaar Masood , Hamza Iqbal

In this work we propose an OCR scheme for manuscripts printed in Rashi font that is an ancient Hebrew font and corresponding dialect used in religious Jewish literature, for more than 600 years. The proposed scheme utilizes a convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Shahar Mahpod , Yosi Keller

Our study utilizes deep learning methods for the automated transcription of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals written in Arabic script Ottoman Turkish (OT) using the Transkribus platform. We discuss the historical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Suphan Kirmizialtin , David Wrisley

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