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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

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

Objective of the current work is to develop an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine for information Just In Time (iJIT) system that can be used for recognition of handwritten textual annotations of lower case Roman script. Tesseract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-03-31 Sandip Rakshit , Subhadip Basu , Hisashi Ikeda

Recent genomic foundation models largely adopt large language model architectures that treat DNA as a one-dimensional token sequence. However, exhaustive sequential reading is structurally misaligned with sparse and discontinuous genomic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Hongxin Xiang , Pengsen Ma , Yunkang Cao , Di Yu , Haowen Chen , Xinyu Yang , Xiangxiang Zeng

Large amounts of labeled data are urgently required for the training of robust text recognizers. However, collecting handwriting data of diverse styles, along with an immense lexicon, is considerably expensive. Although data synthesis is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Canjie Luo , Yuanzhi Zhu , Lianwen Jin , Zhe Li , Dezhi Peng

Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology has witnessed significant advancements in recent years, revolutionizing human-computer interactions. While major languages have benefited from these developments, lesser-resourced languages like…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Muhammad Sharif , Zeeshan Abbas , Jiangyan Yi , Chenglin Liu

This paper presents a novel multistage fine-tuning strategy designed to enhance automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance in low-resource languages using OpenAI's Whisper model. In this approach we aim to build ASR model for languages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Leena G Pillai , Kavya Manohar , Basil K Raju , Elizabeth Sherly

Academic documents are packed with texts, equations, tables, and figures, requiring comprehensive understanding for accurate Optical Character Recognition (OCR). While end-to-end OCR methods offer improved accuracy over layout-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Yu Sun , Dongzhan Zhou , Chen Lin , Conghui He , Wanli Ouyang , Han-Sen Zhong

Generating synthetic images is an art which emulates the natural process of image generation in a closest possible manner. In this work, we exploit such a framework for data generation in handwritten domain. We render synthetic data using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Praveen Krishnan , C. V. Jawahar

Optical character recognition (OCR) systems performance have improved significantly in the deep learning era. This is especially true for handwritten text recognition (HTR), where each author has a unique style, unlike printed text, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Sharon Fogel , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Sarel Cohen , Shai Mazor , Roee Litman

We introduce MonkeyOCR, a document parsing model that advances the state of the art by leveraging a Structure-Recognition-Relation (SRR) triplet paradigm. This design simplifies what would otherwise be a complex multi-tool pipeline and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Zhang Li , Yuliang Liu , Qiang Liu , Zhiyin Ma , Ziyang Zhang , Shuo Zhang , Biao Yang , Zidun Guo , Jiarui Zhang , Xinyu Wang , Xiang Bai

Handwritten text recognition (HTR) and machine translation continue to pose significant challenges, particularly for low-resource languages like Marathi, which lack large digitized corpora and exhibit high variability in handwriting styles.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Shubham Kumar Nigam , Parjanya Aditya Shukla , Noel Shallum , Arnab Bhattacharya

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

Digital inclusion remains a challenge for marginalized communities, especially rural women in low-resource language regions like Bhojpuri. Voice-based access to agricultural services, financial transactions, government schemes, and…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-12 Sakshi Joshi , Eldho Ittan George , Tahir Javed , Kaushal Bhogale , Nikhil Narasimhan , Mitesh M. Khapra

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Kaitao Jiang , Ruiyan Gong , Xiaolong Cheng , Kangning Niu , Tianlun Li , Mu Xu

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

High-quality speech dialogue datasets are crucial for Speech-LLM development, yet existing acquisition methods face significant limitations. Human recordings incur high costs and privacy concerns, while synthetic approaches often lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Minghan Wang , Ye Bai , Yuxia Wang , Thuy-Trang Vu , Ehsan Shareghi , Gholamreza Haffari

In the landscape of modern machine learning, frozen pre-trained models provide stability and efficiency but often underperform on specific tasks due to mismatched data distributions. This paper introduces the Whisperer, a novel visual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Samandar Samandarov , Nazirjon Ismoiljonov , Abdullah Sattorov , Temirlan Sabyrbayev

Document extraction is a core component of digital workflows, yet existing vision-language models (VLMs) predominantly favor high-resource languages. Thai presents additional challenges due to script complexity from non-latin letters, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Surapon Nonesung , Natapong Nitarach , Teetouch Jaknamon , Pittawat Taveekitworachai , Kunat Pipatanakul

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