A survey of document image word spotting techniques

AP Giotis, G Sfikas, B Gatos, C Nikou - Pattern Recognition, 2017 - Elsevier
Vast collections of documents available in image format need to be indexed for information
retrieval purposes. In this framework, word spotting is an alternative solution to optical …

A segmentation-free approach to Arabic and Urdu OCR

N Sabbour, F Shafait - Document recognition and retrieval XX, 2013 - spiedigitallibrary.org
In this paper, we present a generic Optical Character Recognition system for Arabic script
languages called Nabocr. Nabocr uses OCR approaches specific for Arabic script …

A review of deep learning techniques in document image word spotting

L Kumari, A Sharma - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2022 - Springer
From the early days of pattern recognition, word spotting have been important test beds for
studying how well machines can perform better decision making. In recent years, word …

Unsupervised word spotting in historical handwritten document images using document-oriented local features

K Zagoris, I Pratikakis, B Gatos - IEEE Transactions on Image …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Word spotting strategies employed in historical handwritten documents face many
challenges due to variation in the writing style and intense degradation. In this paper, a new …

Word spotting and character recognition of handwritten Hindi scripts by Integral Histogram of Oriented Displacement (IHOD) descriptor

EO Omayio, S Indu, J Panda - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2024 - Springer
This paper proposes efficient and robust segmentation-based word spotting and character
recognition systems for offline handwritten Hindi scripts using a newly proposed shape …

Segmentation-based historical handwritten word spotting using document-specific local features

K Zagoris, I Pratikakis, B Gatos - 2014 14th International …, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many word spotting strategies for the modern documents are not directly applicable to
historical handwritten documents due to writing styles variety and intense degradation. In …

Word spotting as a service: an unsupervised and segmentation-free framework for handwritten documents

K Zagoris, A Amanatiadis, I Pratikakis - Journal of Imaging, 2021 - mdpi.com
Word spotting strategies employed in historical handwritten documents face many
challenges due to variation in the writing style and intense degradation. In this paper, a new …

A framework for efficient transcription of historical documents using keyword spotting

K Zagoris, I Pratikakis, B Gatos - … of the 3rd International Workshop on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Keyword spotting (KWS) has drawn the attention of the research community as the
alternative means to solve hard cases of handwriting text recognition. In this paper, a …

Content level access to Digital Library of India pages

P Krishnan, R Shekhar, CV Jawahar - Proceedings of the Eighth Indian …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we propose a framework for content level access to the scanned pages of
Digital Library of India (DLI). The current Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems are …

Multi-sensor event detection using shape histograms

E Hassan, G Shroff, P Agarwal - Proceedings of the 2nd ACM IKDD …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
Vehicular sensor data consists of multiple time-series arising from a number of sensors.
Using such multi-sensor data we would like to detect occurrences of specific events that …