Handwriting Recognition

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Benchmarks archive 2025-07-28

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Datasets archive 2025-07-28

22 datasets whose archive record lists this task, ordered by the archive's paper count.

Subtasks archive 2025-07-28

2 subtasks in the archive's task tree.

Parent tasks archive 2025-07-28

Most implemented papers archive 2025-07-28

30 shown of 53 papers with code (173 tagged with this task in all), ordered by repositories listed in the archive, not by stars (the archive holds no stars, so PwC's “Social” and “Latest” sorts cannot be reproduced). Papers without a page here are shown as plain text.

• LSTM: A Search Space Odyssey
  13 Mar 2015 17 repositories listed
  Several variants of the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) architecture for recurrent neural networks have been proposed since its inception in 1995.
• OrigamiNet: Weakly-Supervised, Segmentation-Free, One-Step, Full Page Text Recognition by learning to unfold
  12 Jun 2020 8 repositories listed
  On IAM we even surpass single line methods that use accurate localization information during training.
• Full Page Handwriting Recognition via Image to Sequence Extraction
  11 Mar 2021 5 repositories listed
  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 image segmentation.
• Speech Recognition with Deep Recurrent Neural Networks
  22 Mar 2013 5 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 3 samples · 3 unverified
  Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are a powerful model for sequential data.
• Multi-Dimensional Recurrent Neural Networks
  14 May 2007 4 repositories listed Syntology ran 1 of 23 samples · 22 unverified
  Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have proved effective at one dimensional sequence learning tasks, such as speech and online handwriting recognition.
• ScrabbleGAN: Semi-Supervised Varying Length Handwritten Text Generation
  23 Mar 2020 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 2 of 15 samples · 13 unverified
  This is especially true for handwritten text recognition (HTR), where each author has a unique style, unlike printed text, where the variation is smaller by design.
• A Critical Review of Recurrent Neural Networks for Sequence Learning
  29 May 2015 3 repositories listed
  Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are connectionist models that capture the dynamics of sequences via cycles in the network of nodes.
• Spatially-sparse convolutional neural networks
  22 Sep 2014 3 repositories listed Syntology ran 0 of 2 samples · 2 unverified
  Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) perform well on problems such as handwriting recognition and image classification.
• Digital Peter: Dataset, Competition and Handwriting Recognition Methods
  16 Mar 2021 2 repositories listed
  This paper presents a new dataset of Peter the Great's manuscripts and describes a segmentation procedure that converts initial images of documents into the lines.
• Trainable Spectrally Initializable Matrix Transformations in Convolutional Neural Networks
  12 Nov 2019 2 repositories listed
  In this work, we investigate the application of trainable and spectrally initializable matrix transformations on the feature maps produced by convolution operations.
• Segmental Recurrent Neural Networks
  18 Nov 2015 2 repositories listed
  Representations of the input segments (i.
• DeepFRC: An End-to-End Deep Learning Model for Functional Registration and Classification
  30 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  Functional data - observations in the form of curves or trajectories - arise in diverse domains such as biomedical sensing, motion capture, and handwriting recognition.
• DANIEL: A fast Document Attention Network for Information Extraction and Labelling of handwritten documents
  12 Jul 2024 1 repository listed
  Despite this, these integrated approaches have not yet matched the performance of language models, when applied to information extraction in plain text.
• Character Queries: A Transformer-based Approach to On-Line Handwritten Character Segmentation
  6 Sep 2023 1 repository listed
  On-line handwritten character segmentation is often associated with handwriting recognition and even though recognition models include mechanisms to locate relevant positions during the recognition process, it is…
• Writer adaptation for offline text recognition: An exploration of neural network-based methods
  11 Jul 2023 1 repository listed
  In this paper, we explore how HTR models can be made writer adaptive by using only a handful of examples from a new writer (e.
• FPGA Implementation of Convolutional Neural Network for Real-Time Handwriting Recognition
  23 Jun 2023 1 repository listed
  Machine Learning (ML) has recently been a skyrocketing field in Computer Science.
• BN-DRISHTI: Bangla Document Recognition through Instance-level Segmentation of Handwritten Text Images
  31 May 2023 1 repository listed
  Handwriting recognition remains challenging for some of the most spoken languages, like Bangla, due to the complexity of line and word segmentation brought by the curvilinear nature of writing and lack of quality…
• Huruf: An Application for Arabic Handwritten Character Recognition Using Deep Learning
  16 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  Prominent work has been done in this field focusing mainly on Latin characters.
• SoftCTC -- Semi-Supervised Learning for Text Recognition using Soft Pseudo-Labels
  5 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  This paper explores semi-supervised training for sequence tasks, such as Optical Character Recognition or Automatic Speech Recognition.
• UIT-HWDB: Using Transferring Method to Construct A Novel Benchmark for Evaluating Unconstrained Handwriting Image Recognition in Vietnamese
  10 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  Recognizing handwriting images is challenging due to the vast variation in writing style across many people and distinct linguistic aspects of writing languages.
• Kurdish Handwritten Character Recognition using Deep Learning Techniques
  18 Oct 2022 1 repository listed
  From the experimental results, it is clear that the proposed deep learning model is performing well and is comparable to the similar model of other languages' handwriting recognition systems.
• Towards End-to-end Handwritten Document Recognition
  30 Sep 2022 1 repository listed
  We proposed an approach at the line level, based on a fully convolutional network, in order to design a first generic feature extraction step for the handwriting recognition task.
• Improving Accuracy and Explainability of Online Handwriting Recognition
  14 Sep 2022 1 repository listed
  A wide range of applications from signature verification to electronic document processing can be realized by implementing efficient and accurate handwriting recognition algorithms.
• LILA-BOTI : Leveraging Isolated Letter Accumulations By Ordering Teacher Insights for Bangla Handwriting Recognition
  23 May 2022 1 repository listed
  Word-level handwritten optical character recognition (OCR) remains a challenge for morphologically rich languages like Bangla.
• Star Temporal Classification: Sequence Classification with Partially Labeled Data
  28 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  These experiments show that STC can recover most of the performance of supervised baseline when up to 70% of the labels are missing.
• AttentionHTR: Handwritten Text Recognition Based on Attention Encoder-Decoder Networks
  23 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  This work proposes an attention-based sequence-to-sequence model for handwritten word recognition and explores transfer learning for data-efficient training of HTR systems.
• Continuous Offline Handwriting Recognition using Deep Learning Models
  26 Dec 2021 1 repository listed
  For the design of this new model, an extensive analysis of the capabilities of different convolutional architectures in the simplified problem of isolated character recognition has been carried out in order to identify…
• KOHTD: Kazakh Offline Handwritten Text Dataset
  22 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  In this regard, there is a need to implement Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) which is an automatic way to decrypt records using a computer.
• Vietnamese end-to-end speech recognition using wav2vec 2.0
  2 Sep 2021 1 repository listed
  Our models are pre-trained on 13k hours of Vietnamese youtube audio (un-label data) and fine-tuned on 250 hours labeled of VLSP ASR dataset on 16kHz sampled speech audio.
• Few Shots Are All You Need: A Progressive Few Shot Learning Approach for Low Resource Handwritten Text Recognition
  21 Jul 2021 1 repository listed Syntology ran 0 of 11 samples · 11 unverified
  Since this retraining would require annotation of thousands of handwritten symbols together with their bounding boxes, we propose to avoid such human effort through an unsupervised progressive learning approach that…

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