NDLI: Learning on the fly: a font-free approach toward multilingual OCR

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Kae, Andrew Smith, David A. Learned Miller, Erik
Copyright Year	2011
Abstract	Despite ubiquitous claims that optical character recognition (OCR) is a “solved problem,” many categories of documents continue to break modern OCR software such as documents with moderate degradation or unusual fonts. Many approaches rely on pre-computed or stored character models, but these are vulnerable to cases when the font of a particular document was not part of the training set or when there is so much noise in a document that the font model becomes weak. To address these difficult cases, we present a form of iterative contextual modeling that learns character models directly from the document it is trying to recognize. We use these learned models both to segment the characters and to recognize them in an incremental, iterative process. We present results comparable with those of a commercial OCR system on a subset of characters from a difficult test document in both English and Greek.
Starting Page	289
Ending Page	301
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	14332833
Journal	International Journal of Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
Volume Number	14
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	14332825
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2011-04-26
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Character recognition OCR Cryptogram Font-free models Multilingual OCR Pattern Recognition Image Processing and Computer Vision
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Computer Science Applications Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Software

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