Advancements and challenges in handwritten text recognition: A comprehensive survey

W AlKendi, F Gechter, L Heyberger, C Guyeux - Journal of Imaging, 2024 - mdpi.com
Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is essential for digitizing historical documents in
different kinds of archives. In this study, we introduce a hybrid form archive written in French …

End-to-end document recognition and understanding with dessurt

B Davis, B Morse, B Price, C Tensmeyer… - … on Computer Vision, 2022 - Springer
We introduce Dessurt, a relatively simple document understanding transformer capable of
being fine-tuned on a greater variety of document tasks than prior methods. It receives a …

End-to-end handwritten paragraph text recognition using a vertical attention network

D Coquenet, C Chatelain… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Unconstrained handwritten text recognition remains challenging for computer vision
systems. Paragraph text recognition is traditionally achieved by two models: the first one for …

Pay attention to what you read: non-recurrent handwritten text-line recognition

L Kang, P Riba, M Rusiñol, A Fornés, M Villegas - Pattern Recognition, 2022 - Elsevier
The advent of recurrent neural networks for handwriting recognition marked an important
milestone reaching impressive recognition accuracies despite the great variability that we …

Intelligent character recognition using fully convolutional neural networks

R Ptucha, FP Such, S Pillai, F Brockler, V Singh… - Pattern recognition, 2019 - Elsevier
The recognition of handwritten text is challenging as there are virtually infinite ways a human
can write the same message. Deep learning approaches for handwriting analysis have …

OrigamiNet: weakly-supervised, segmentation-free, one-step, full page text recognition by learning to unfold

M Yousef, TE Bishop - … of the IEEE/CVF conference on …, 2020 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Text recognition is a major computer vision task with a big set of associated challenges. One
of those traditional challenges is the coupled nature of text recognition and segmentation …

Aggregation cross-entropy for sequence recognition

Z Xie, Y Huang, Y Zhu, L Jin… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - openaccess.thecvf.com
In this paper, we propose a novel method, aggregation cross-entropy (ACE), for sequence
recognition from a brand new perspective. The ACE loss function exhibits competitive …

Full page handwriting recognition via image to sequence extraction

SS Singh, S Karayev - Document Analysis and Recognition–ICDAR 2021 …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract We present a Neural Network based Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model
architecture that can be trained to recognize full pages of handwritten or printed text without …

Offline handwritten text recognition using deep learning: A review

Y Wang, W Xiao, S Li - Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The area of offline handwritten text recognition (OHTR) has been widely researched in the
last decades, but it stills an important research problem. The OHTR system has an objective …

Pagenet: Towards end-to-end weakly supervised page-level handwritten chinese text recognition

D Peng, L Jin, Y Liu, C Luo, S Lai - International Journal of Computer …, 2022 - Springer
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 …