Offline recognition of Devanagari script: a survey

R Jayadevan, SR Kolhe, PM Patil… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In India, more than 300 million people use Devanagari script for documentation. There has
been a significant improvement in the research related to the recognition of printed as well …

[PDF][PDF] Optical character recognition for Hindi language using a neural-network approach

D Yadav, S Sánchez-Cuadrado… - Journal of Information …, 2013 - koreascience.kr
Hindi is the most widely spoken language in India, with more than 300 million speakers. As
there is no separation between the characters of texts written in Hindi as there is in English …

[PDF][PDF] Gujarati script recognition: a review

M Maloo, KV Kale - International Journal of Computer Science Issues …, 2011 - Citeseer
This paper is step to locate the researchers, their track in the way for recognizing the
characters from various regional scripts in India. This survey paper would provide a path for …

Challenges in OCR of Devanagari documents

S Kompalli, S Nayak, S Setlur… - … on Document Analysis …, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Challenges in OCR of Devanagari documents Page 1 Challenges in OCR of Dev anagari
Documents Suryaprakash Kompalli Sankalp Nayak Srirangaraj Setlur Venu Govindaraju …

Document analysis systems for digital libraries: Challenges and opportunities

HS Baird, V Govindaraju, DP Lopresti - Document Analysis Systems VI …, 2004 - Springer
Implications of technical demands made within digital libraries (DL's) for document image
analysis systems are discussed. The state-of-the-art is summarized, including a digest of …

Devanagari OCR using a recognition driven segmentation framework and stochastic language models

S Kompalli, S Setlur, V Govindaraju - International Journal on Document …, 2009 - Springer
This paper describes a novel recognition driven segmentation methodology for Devanagari
Optical Character Recognition. Prior approaches have used sequential rules to segment …

Content-level annotation of large collection of printed document images

A Kumar, CV Jawahar - Ninth International Conference on …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A large annotated corpus is critical to the development of robust optical character
recognizers (OCRs). However, creation of annotated corpora is a tedious task. It is laborious …

Design and comparison of segmentation driven and recognition driven Devanagari OCR

S Kompalli, S Setlur… - … Conference on Document …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We outline two different techniques for OCR of machine printed, multi-font Devanagari text.
In the first design, words are segmented along linear boundaries. Subsequently …

A segmentation-free approach for printed Devanagari script recognition

T Karayil, A Ul-Hasan, TM Breuel - 2015 13th International …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks are a suitable candidate for segmentation-free
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks due to their good context-aware processing. In …

Feature extraction and use with a probability density function (PDF) divergence metric

RKK Kumar, PK Baheti, DA Gore - US Patent 9,141,874, 2015 - Google Patents
An image of real world is processed to identify blocks as candidates to be recognized. Each
block is subdivided into Sub-blocks, and each Sub-block is traversed to obtain counts, OO in …