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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…

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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems have been widely used in various of application scenarios. Designing an OCR system is still a challenging task. In previous work, we proposed a practical ultra lightweight OCR system (PP-OCR) to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Yuning Du , Chenxia Li , Ruoyu Guo , Cheng Cui , Weiwei Liu , Jun Zhou , Bin Lu , Yehua Yang , Qiwen Liu , Xiaoguang Hu , Dianhai Yu , Yanjun Ma

Improving visual text synthesis has long been a challenging and evolving frontier for image generation models. While recent state-of-the-art (SOTA) models have made remarkable strides in text generation capabilities, existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Peirong Zhang , Haowei Xu , Jiaxin Zhang , Xuhan Zheng , Guitao Xu , Yuyi Zhang , Junle Liu , Zhenhua Yang , Wei Zhou , Lianwen Jin

We present MMOCR-an open-source toolbox which provides a comprehensive pipeline for text detection and recognition, as well as their downstream tasks such as named entity recognition and key information extraction. MMOCR implements 14…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Zhanghui Kuang , Hongbin Sun , Zhizhong Li , Xiaoyu Yue , Tsui Hin Lin , Jianyong Chen , Huaqiang Wei , Yiqin Zhu , Tong Gao , Wenwei Zhang , Kai Chen , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is promising, however has been shown to be sub-optimal, with inferior transfer performance across low-resource languages. In this work, we envision languages as domains for improving zero-shot transfer by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Shanu Kumar , Abbaraju Soujanya , Sandipan Dandapat , Sunayana Sitaram , Monojit Choudhury

Deep learning models fail on cross-domain challenges if the model is oversensitive to domain-specific attributes, e.g., lightning, background, camera angle, etc. To alleviate this problem, data augmentation coupled with consistency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Mengmeng Jing , Xiantong Zhen , Jingjing Li , Cees Snoek

Document alignment and registration play a crucial role in numerous real-world applications, such as automated form processing, anomaly detection, and workflow automation. Traditional methods for document alignment rely on image-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Ross Greer , Alisha Ukani , Katherine Izhikevich , Earlence Fernandes , Stefan Savage , Alex C. Snoeren

Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition (HWR) pose unique challenges due to the cursive and context-sensitive nature of the Arabic script. This study introduces Qalam, a novel foundation model designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Gagan Bhatia , El Moatez Billah Nagoudi , Fakhraddin Alwajih , Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive capabilities across various domains, excelling in processing and understanding information from multiple modalities. Despite the rapid progress made previously, insufficient OCR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Song Chen , Xinyu Guo , Yadong Li , Tao Zhang , Mingan Lin , Dongdong Kuang , Youwei Zhang , Lingfeng Ming , Fengyu Zhang , Yuran Wang , Jianhua Xu , Zenan Zhou , Weipeng Chen

Emerging universal Computational Aberration Correction (CAC) paradigms provide an inspiring solution to light-weight and high-quality imaging with a universal model trained on a lens library (LensLib) to address arbitrary lens optical…

Speech Recognition builds a bridge between the multimedia streaming (audio-only, visual-only or audio-visual) and the corresponding text transcription. However, when training the specific model of new domain, it often gets stuck in the lack…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Xize Cheng , Tao Jin , Linjun Li , Wang Lin , Xinyu Duan , Zhou Zhao

Over the past few decades, large archives of paper-based historical documents, such as books and newspapers, have been digitized using the Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology. Unfortunately, this broadly used technology is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Omri Suissa , Maayan Zhitomirsky-Geffet , Avshalom Elmalech

This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Hylke Westerdijk , Ben Blankenborg , Khondoker Ittehadul Islam

Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in short-form video understanding, yet translating long-form cinematic videos into detailed, temporally grounded scripts remains a significant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Junfu Pu , Yuxin Chen , Teng Wang , Ying Shan

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in multilingual, noisy, and diverse real-world images remains a significant challenge for optical character recognition systems. With the rise of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), there is growing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Aryan Gupta , Anupam Purwar

Vision-language models (VLMs) excel in tasks such as visual question answering and image captioning. However, VLMs are often limited by their use of pretrained image encoders, like CLIP, leading to image understanding errors that hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Aristeidis Panos , Rahaf Aljundi , Daniel Olmeda Reino , Richard E. Turner

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong promise on Optical Character Recognition (OCR), yet the sheer number of visual tokens required to encode dense documents incurs prohibitive inference cost. Existing pruning methods rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zihan Tang , Leqi Shen , Hui Chen , Ao Wang , Ben Wan , Yan Feng , Ke Zhang , Sicheng Zhao , Tongxuan Liu , Guiguang Ding

OCR (Optical Character Recognition) is a technology that offers comprehensive alphanumeric recognition of handwritten and printed characters at electronic speed by merely scanning the document. Recently, the understanding of visual data has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Atman Mishra , A. Sharath Ram , Kavyashree C

There are many difficulties facing a handwritten Arabic recognition system such as unlimited variation in human handwriting, similarities of distinct character shapes, interconnections of neighbouring characters and their position in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-27 Ahmed Sahlol , Cheng Suen

Unsupervised object-centric representation (OCR) learning has recently drawn attention as a new paradigm of visual representation. This is because of its potential of being an effective pre-training technique for various downstream tasks in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jaesik Yoon , Yi-Fu Wu , Heechul Bae , Sungjin Ahn