Offline handwritten Chinese recognition is an important research area of pattern recognition,
including offline handwritten Chinese character recognition (offline HCCR) and offline …

This paper presents a systematic literature review of image datasets for document image
analysis, focusing on historical documents, such as handwritten manuscripts and early …

Handwritten Chinese text recognition (HCTR) has been an active research topic for
decades. However, most previous studies solely focus on the recognition of cropped text line …

Style transfer has attracted much interest owing to its various applications. Compared with
English character or general artistic style transfer, Chinese character style transfer remains a …

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end trainable framework for restoring historical
documents content that follows the correct reading order. In this framework, two branches …

Recognizing and organizing text in correct reading order plays a crucial role in historical
document analysis and preservation. While existing methods have shown promising …

This paper introduces a Chinese Ancient Handwritten Characters Database (CASIA-
AHCDB) for character recognition research. The database was built by annotating 11,937 …

In today's digital age, there is a need to digitize ancient images and documents, the ancient
periods from stone inscriptions reveals the cultural history and helps to preserve and …

Abstract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of historical document images remains a
challenging task because of the distorted input images, extensive number of uncommon …

With the passing of history, precious cultural heritage was left behind to tell ancient stories,
especially those in the form of written documents. In this paper, a weakly supervised …