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• 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.
• 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.
• Boosting Handwriting Text Recognition in Small Databases with Transfer Learning
  4 Apr 2018 3 repositories listed
  We first investigate, for a reduced and fixed number of training samples, 350 lines, how the learning from a large database, the IAM, can be transferred to the learning of the CLC of a reduced database, Washington.
• HTR-VT: Handwritten Text Recognition with Vision Transformer
  13 Sep 2024 2 repositories listed
  To address this limitation, we introduce a data-efficient ViT method that uses only the encoder of the standard transformer.
• Muharaf: Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic Dataset for Cursive Text Recognition
  13 Jun 2024 2 repositories listed
  We present the Manuscripts of Handwritten Arabic~(Muharaf) dataset, which is a machine learning dataset consisting of more than 1, 600 historic handwritten page images transcribed by experts in archival Arabic.
• Data Generation for Post-OCR correction of Cyrillic handwriting
  27 Nov 2023 2 repositories listed
  We apply a Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) model to this dataset to identify OCR errors, forming the basis for our POC model training.
• Judge a Book by its Cover: Investigating Multi-Modal LLMs for Multi-Page Handwritten Document Transcription
  27 Feb 2025 1 repository listed
  Experiments on a multi-page version of the IAM Handwriting Database demonstrate that '+first page' improves transcription accuracy, balances cost with performance, and even enhances results on out-of-sample text by…
• Early evidence of how LLMs outperform traditional systems on OCR/HTR tasks for historical records
  20 Jan 2025 1 repository listed
  We explore the ability of two LLMs -- GPT-4o and Claude Sonnet 3.
• Unlocking the Archives: Using Large Language Models to Transcribe Handwritten Historical Documents
  2 Nov 2024 1 repository listed
  This study demonstrates that Large Language Models (LLMs) can transcribe historical handwritten documents with significantly higher accuracy than specialized Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) software, while being…
• Hespi: A pipeline for automatically detecting information from hebarium specimen sheets
  11 Oct 2024 1 repository listed
  We applied advanced computer vision techniques to develop the `Hespi' (HErbarium Specimen sheet PIpeline), which extracts a pre-catalogue subset of collection data on the institutional labels on herbarium specimens from…
• General Detection-based Text Line Recognition
  25 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  We introduce a general detection-based approach to text line recognition, be it printed (OCR) or handwritten (HTR), with Latin, Chinese, or ciphered characters.
• DiffusionPen: Towards Controlling the Style of Handwritten Text Generation
  9 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  Handwritten Text Generation (HTG) conditioned on text and style is a challenging task due to the variability of inter-user characteristics and the unlimited combinations of characters that form new words unseen during…
• Rethinking HTG Evaluation: Bridging Generation and Recognition
  4 Sep 2024 1 repository listed
  In this work, we introduce three measures tailored for HTG evaluation, HTG_(HTR), HTG_(style), and HTG_(OOV), and argue that they are more expedient to evaluate the quality of generated handwritten images.
• Best Practices for a Handwritten Text Recognition System
  17 Apr 2024 1 repository listed
  Handwritten text recognition has been developed rapidly in the recent years, following the rise of deep learning and its applications.
• Temporally Consistent Referring Video Object Segmentation with Hybrid Memory
  28 Mar 2024 1 repository listed Syntology ran 14 of 15 samples · 1 unverified
  Referring Video Object Segmentation (R-VOS) methods face challenges in maintaining consistent object segmentation due to temporal context variability and the presence of other visually similar objects.
• REE-HDSC: Recognizing Extracted Entities for the Historical Database Suriname Curacao
  19 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  We describe the project REE-HDSC and outline our efforts to improve the quality of named entities extracted automatically from texts generated by hand-written text recognition (HTR) software.
• Automatic Transcription of Handwritten Old Occitan Language
  6 Dec 2023 1 repository listed
  While existing neural network-based approaches have shown promising results in Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) for high-resource languages and standardized/machine-written text, their application to low-resource…
• 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.
• WordStylist: Styled Verbatim Handwritten Text Generation with Latent Diffusion Models
  29 Mar 2023 1 repository listed
  Our proposed method is able to generate realistic word image samples from different writer styles, by using class index styles and text content prompts without the need of adversarial training, writer recognition, or…
• End-to-End Page-Level Assessment of Handwritten Text Recognition
  14 Jan 2023 1 repository listed
  The evaluation of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems has traditionally used metrics based on the edit distance between HTR and ground truth (GT) transcripts, at both the character and word levels.
• Enhancing Indic Handwritten Text Recognition Using Global Semantic Information
  15 Dec 2022 1 repository listed
  We use a semantic module in an encoder-decoder framework for extracting global semantic information to recognize the Indic handwritten texts.
• New Results for the Text Recognition of Arabic Maghrib{ī} Manuscripts -- Managing an Under-resourced Script
  29 Nov 2022 1 repository listed
  HTR models development has become a conventional step for digital humanities projects.
• Handwritten Paleographic Greek Text Recognition: A Century-Based Approach
  1 Jun 2022 1 repository listed
  The overall aim of this paper is to assess HTR for old Greek manuscripts.
• Easter2.0: Improving convolutional models for handwritten text recognition
  30 May 2022 1 repository listed
  In addition to the Easter2.
• BN-HTRd: A Benchmark Dataset for Document Level Offline Bangla Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) and Line Segmentation
  29 May 2022 1 repository listed
  Our line segmentation approach takes care of the variability involved in different writing styles, accurately segmenting complex handwritten text lines of curvilinear nature.
• Transformer-based HTR for Historical Documents
  21 Mar 2022 1 repository listed
  We apply the TrOCR framework to real-world, historical manuscripts and show that TrOCR per se is a strong model, ideal for transfer learning.
• 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.
• Evaluation of HTR models without Ground Truth Material
  17 Jan 2022 1 repository listed
  The evaluation of Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) models during their development is straightforward: because HTR is a supervised problem, the usual data split into training, validation, and test data sets allows the…
• 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…

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