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Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) is essential for digitizing historical documents in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

Enhance to read better: a multi-task adversarial network for handwritten document image enhancement

SK Jemni, MA Souibgui, Y Kessentini, A Fornés - Pattern Recognition, 2022 - Elsevier
Handwritten document images can be highly affected by degradation for different reasons:
Paper ageing, daily-life scenarios (wrinkles, dust, etc.), bad scanning process and so on …

Fine-tuning vision encoder–decoder transformers for handwriting text recognition on historical documents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

Kohtd: Kazakh offline handwritten text dataset

N Toiganbayeva, M Kasem, G Abdimanap… - Signal Processing …, 2022 - Elsevier
Despite the transition to digital information exchange, many documents, such as invoices,
taxes, memos and questionnaires, historical data, and answers to exam questions, still …

A robust handwritten recognition system for learning on different data restriction scenarios

AF de Sousa Neto, BLD Bezerra, AH Toselli… - Pattern Recognition …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) systems have gained interest in fields of
academic research and commercial applications. Deep learning techniques, and more …

Efficient CRNN: Towards end-to-end low resource Urdu text recognition using depthwise separable convolutions and gated recurrent units

T Nasir, MK Malik - Information Processing & Management, 2024 - Elsevier
In this study, a novel technique is proposed to recognize printed text in images for Urdu, a
low-resource language with a scarcity of benchmark datasets. The proposed technique is …

Explainability and transparency in the realm of digital humanities: toward a historian XAI

H El-Hajj, O Eberle, A Merklein, A Siebold… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
The recent advancements in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) translated to an increased
adoption of AI technology in the humanities, which is often challenged by the limited amount …

Htr for greek historical handwritten documents

L Tsochatzidis, S Symeonidis, A Papazoglou… - Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Offline handwritten text recognition (HTR) for historical documents aims for effective
transcription by addressing challenges that originate from the low quality of manuscripts …

HDSR-Flor: a robust end-to-end system to solve the handwritten digit string recognition problem in real complex scenarios

AFDS Neto, BLD Bezerra, EB Lima, AH Toselli - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic handwriting recognition systems are of interest for academic research fields and
for commercial applications. Recent advances in deep learning techniques have shown …

An End-to-End Approach for Handwriting Recognition: From Handwritten Text Lines to Complete Pages

D Castro, BLD Bezerra… - Proceedings of the IEEE …, 2024 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Abstract Handwritten Document Recognition (HDR) has emerged as a challenging task
integrating text and layout information recognition to tackle manuscripts end-to-end. Despite …