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Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is essential for digitizing historical documents in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 …

Lexicon-free handwritten word spotting using character HMMs

A Fischer, A Keller, V Frinken, H Bunke - Pattern recognition letters, 2012 - Elsevier
For retrieving keywords from scanned handwritten documents, we present a word spotting
system that is based on character Hidden Markov Models. In an efficient lexicon-free …

Deep learning for handwriting text recognition: existing approaches and challenges

N Teslya, S Mohammed - 2022 31st Conference of Open …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has attracted widespread attention due
to its huge applications. HTR is the process of extracting handwritten text from an image and …

A survey of historical document image datasets

K Nikolaidou, M Seuret, H Mokayed… - International Journal on …, 2022 - Springer
This paper presents a systematic literature review of image datasets for document image
analysis, focusing on historical documents, such as handwritten manuscripts and early …

Diva-hisdb: A precisely annotated large dataset of challenging medieval manuscripts

F Simistira, M Seuret, N Eichenberger… - … on Frontiers in …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper introduces a publicly available historical manuscript database DIVA-HisDB for
the evaluation of several Document Image Analysis (DIA) tasks. The database consists of …

HTR-Flor: A deep learning system for offline handwritten text recognition

AF de Sousa Neto, BLD Bezerra… - 2020 33rd SIBGRAPI …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In recent years, Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) has captured a lot of attention among
the researchers of the computer vision community. Current state-of-the-art approaches for …

Transcription alignment of Latin manuscripts using hidden Markov models

A Fischer, V Frinken, A Fornés, H Bunke - Proceedings of the 2011 …, 2011 - dl.acm.org
Transcriptions of historical documents are a valuable source for extracting labeled
handwriting images that can be used for training recognition systems. In this paper, we …

ARDIS: a Swedish historical handwritten digit dataset

H Kusetogullari, A Yavariabdi, A Cheddad… - Neural Computing and …, 2020 - Springer
This paper introduces a new image-based handwritten historical digit dataset named Arkiv
Digital Sweden (ARDIS). The images in ARDIS dataset are extracted from 15,000 Swedish …

Towards the natural language processing as spelling correction for offline handwritten text recognition systems

AFS Neto, BLD Bezerra, AH Toselli - Applied Sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The increasing portability of physical manuscripts to the digital environment makes it
common for systems to offer automatic mechanisms for offline Handwritten Text Recognition …

Fine-tuning vision encoder–decoder transformers for handwriting text recognition on historical documents

D Parres, R Paredes - International Conference on Document Analysis …, 2023 - Springer
Handwritten text recognition (HTR) has seen significant advancements in recent years,
mainly due to the incorporation of deep learning techniques. One area of HTR that has …