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Optical character recognition (OCR) has advanced rapidly with the rise of vision-language models, yet evaluation has remained concentrated on a small cluster of high- and mid-resource scripts. We introduce GlotOCR Bench, a comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Amir Hossein Kargaran , Nafiseh Nikeghbal , Jana Diesner , François Yvon , Hinrich Schütze

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

GLM-OCR is an efficient 0.9B-parameter compact multimodal model designed for real-world document understanding. It combines a 0.4B-parameter CogViT visual encoder with a 0.5B-parameter GLM language decoder, achieving a strong balance…

Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has made significant progress since its inception, with various approaches now capable of accurately transcribing music scores into digital formats. Despite these advancements, most so-called end-to-end OMR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Antonio Ríos-Vila , Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza , David Rizo , Thierry Paquet

In recent years, notable advancements have been made in the domain of visual document understanding, with the prevailing architecture comprising a cascade of vision and language models. The text component can either be extracted explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Ofir Abramovich , Niv Nayman , Sharon Fogel , Inbal Lavi , Ron Litman , Shahar Tsiper , Royee Tichauer , Srikar Appalaraju , Shai Mazor , R. Manmatha

Some historical and more recent printed documents have been scanned or stored at very low resolutions, such as 60 dpi. Though such scans are relatively easy for humans to read, they still present significant challenges for optical character…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Julian D. Gilbey , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb

Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become one of the most used imaging modality in ophthalmology. It provides high-resolution, non-invasive visualization of retinal microarchitecture. The automated analysis of OCT images through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hedi Tabia , Désiré Sidibé , Nawres Khlifa , Ahmed Tabia , Ines Rahmany , Noura Aboudi , Zainab Haddad , Hajer Khachnaoui , Hsouna Zgolli

Cross-modal matching, a fundamental task in bridging vision and language, has recently garnered substantial research interest. Despite the development of numerous methods aimed at quantifying the semantic relatedness between image-text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhengxin Pan , Haishuai Wang , Fangyu Wu , Bailing Zhang , Jiajun Bu , Hongyang Chen

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

In this paper, we propose an Omni-perception Pre-Trainer (OPT) for cross-modal understanding and generation, by jointly modeling visual, text and audio resources. OPT is constructed in an encoder-decoder framework, including three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Jing Liu , Xinxin Zhu , Fei Liu , Longteng Guo , Zijia Zhao , Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Hanqing Lu , Shiyu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Jinqiao Wang

A crucial component for the scene text based reasoning required for TextVQA and TextCaps datasets involve detecting and recognizing text present in the images using an optical character recognition (OCR) system. The current systems are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-13 Amanpreet Singh , Guan Pang , Mandy Toh , Jing Huang , Wojciech Galuba , Tal Hassner

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

Recent advancements in deep neural networks have markedly enhanced the performance of computer vision tasks, yet the specialized nature of these networks often necessitates extensive data and high computational power. Addressing these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Jiayou Chao , Wei Zhu

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

This research paper presents a unique Bengali OCR system with some capabilities. The system excels in reconstructing document layouts while preserving structure, alignment, and images. It incorporates advanced image and signature detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-09 AKM Shahariar Azad Rabby , Hasmot Ali , Md. Majedul Islam , Sheikh Abujar , Fuad Rahman

DeepSeek-OCR utilizes an optical 2D mapping approach to achieve high-ratio vision-text compression, claiming to decode text tokens exceeding ten times the input visual tokens. While this suggests a promising solution for the LLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yunhao Liang , Ruixuan Ying , Bo Li , Hong Li , Kai Yan , Qingwen Li , Min Yang , Okamoto Satoshi , Zhe Cui , Shiwen Ni

We propose an end-to-end trainable network that can simultaneously detect and recognize text of arbitrary shape, making substantial progress on the open problem of reading scene text of irregular shape. We formulate arbitrary shape text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Siyang Qin , Alessandro Bissacco , Michalis Raptis , Yasuhisa Fujii , Ying Xiao

We introduce OTTER, a unified open-set multi-label tagging framework that harmonizes the stability of a curated, predefined category set with the adaptability of user-driven open tags. OTTER is built upon a large-scale, hierarchically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Jieer Ouyang , Xiaoneng Xiang , Zheng Wang , Yangkai Ding

Existing optical character recognition (OCR) methods rely on task-specific designs with divergent paradigms, architectures, and training strategies, which significantly increases the complexity of research and maintenance and hinders the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dezhi Peng , Zhenhua Yang , Jiaxin Zhang , Chongyu Liu , Yongxin Shi , Kai Ding , Fengjun Guo , Lianwen Jin

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