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Document digitization is essential for the digital transformation of our societies, yet a crucial step in the process, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is still not perfect. Even commercial OCR systems can produce questionable output…

Effects of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) quality on historical information retrieval have so far been studied in data-oriented scenarios regarding the effectiveness of retrieval results. Such studies have either focused on the effects…

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Scientific knowledge is predominantly stored in books and scientific journals, often in the form of PDFs. However, the PDF format leads to a loss of semantic information, particularly for mathematical expressions. We propose Nougat (Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Lukas Blecher , Guillem Cucurull , Thomas Scialom , Robert Stojnic

This paper introduces PreP-OCR, a two-stage pipeline that combines document image restoration with semantic-aware post-OCR correction to enhance both visual clarity and textual consistency, thereby improving text extraction from degraded…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Shuhao Guan , Moule Lin , Cheng Xu , Xinyi Liu , Jinman Zhao , Jiexin Fan , Qi Xu , Derek Greene

Document image quality assessment (DIQA) is an important and challenging problem in real applications. In order to predict the quality scores of document images, this paper proposes a novel no-reference DIQA method based on character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-12 Hongyu Li , Fan Zhu , Junhua Qiu

We present an end-to-end trainable approach for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on printed documents. Specifically, we propose a model that predicts a) a two-dimensional character grid (\emph{chargrid}) representation of a document…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Christian Reisswig , Anoop R Katti , Marco Spinaci , Johannes Höhne

Despite significant advances in document understanding, determining the correct orientation of scanned or photographed documents remains a critical pre-processing step in the real world settings. Accurate rotation correction is essential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Suranjan Goswami , Abhinav Ravi , Raja Kolla , Ali Faraz , Shaharukh Khan , Akash , Chandra Khatri , Shubham Agarwal

Detection and recognition of text from scans and other images, commonly denoted as Optical Character Recognition (OCR), is a widely used form of automated document processing with a number of methods available. Yet OCR systems still do not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Krzysztof Olejniczak , Milan Šulc

Automating the annotation of scanned documents is challenging, requiring a balance between computational efficiency and accuracy. DocParseNet addresses this by combining deep learning and multi-modal learning to process both text and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Ahmad Mohammadshirazi , Ali Nosrati Firoozsalari , Mengxi Zhou , Dheeraj Kulshrestha , Rajiv Ramnath

We propose a post-OCR text correction approach for digitising texts in Romanised Sanskrit. Owing to the lack of resources our approach uses OCR models trained for other languages written in Roman. Currently, there exists no dataset…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Amrith Krishna , Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder , Rajesh Shreedhar Bhat , Pawan Goyal

Document parsing is a core task in document intelligence, supporting applications such as information extraction, retrieval-augmented generation, and automated document analysis. However, real-world documents often feature complex layouts…

The biggest challenge in the field of image processing is to recognize documents both in printed and handwritten format. Optical Character Recognition OCR is a type of document image analysis where scanned digital image that contains either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Singh Vijendra , Nisha Vasudeva , Hem Jyotsana Parashar

Document image quality assessment (DIQA) is an important component for various applications, including optical character recognition (OCR), document restoration, and the evaluation of document image processing systems. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Zhichao Ma , Fan Huang , Lu Zhao , Fengjun Guo , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

We introduce ABot-OCR, an end-to-end vision-language model that transcribes a page image directly into clean Markdown in a single forward pass. By doing so, our approach completely eliminates the need for brittle modular orchestration. To…

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Traditional OCR systems (OCR-1.0) are increasingly unable to meet people's usage due to the growing demand for intelligent processing of man-made optical characters. In this paper, we collectively refer to all artificial optical signals…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haoran Wei , Chenglong Liu , Jinyue Chen , Jia Wang , Lingyu Kong , Yanming Xu , Zheng Ge , Liang Zhao , Jianjian Sun , Yuang Peng , Chunrui Han , Xiangyu Zhang

The development of large vision language models drives the demand for managing, and applying massive amounts of multimodal data, making OCR technology, which extracts information from visual images, increasingly popular. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Yufeng Zhong , Lei Chen , Xuanle Zhao , Wenkang Han , Liming Zheng , Jing Huang , Deyang Jiang , Yilin Cao , Lin Ma , Zhixiong Zeng

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) on historical printings is a challenging task mainly due to the complexity of the layout and the highly variant typography. Nevertheless, in the last few years great progress has been made in the area of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Christian Reul , Dennis Christ , Alexander Hartelt , Nico Balbach , Maximilian Wehner , Uwe Springmann , Christoph Wick , Christine Grundig , Andreas Büttner , Frank Puppe

Long-term OCR services aim to provide high-quality output to their users at competitive costs. It is essential to upgrade the models because of the complex data loaded by the users. The service providers encourage the users who provide data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Ajoy Mondal , Rohit saluja , C. V. Jawahar

Information Extraction from visually rich documents is a challenging task that has gained a lot of attention in recent years due to its importance in several document-control based applications and its widespread commercial value. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-03 Mohamed Dhouib , Ghassen Bettaieb , Aymen Shabou

In this paper, we propose a data augmentation framework for Optical Character Recognition (OCR). The proposed framework is able to synthesize new viewing angles and illumination scenarios, effectively enriching any available OCR dataset.…

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