While analyzing scanned documents, handwritten text can overlap with printed text. This
overlap causes difficulties during the optical character recognition (OCR) and digitization …

Abstract Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system is used to convert the document
images, either printed or handwritten, into its electronic counterpart. But dealing with …

Historical archival records present many challenges for OCR systems to correctly encode
their content, due to visual complexity, eg mixed printed text and handwritten annotations …

With a wide variety of forms being generated in different organizations daily, efficient and
quick retrieval of information from these forms becomes a pressing need. The data on these …

The separation of handwritten and printed text in document images is an important task in
the optical character recognition (OCR) research field. It is still a challenging problem to …

The presence of handwritten text and annotations combined with typewritten and machine-
printed text in historical archival records make them visually complex, posing challenges for …