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  1. Open Vocabulary Word Recognition From Transcribed Bangla Texts

    Oct 1, 2026Faias Satter, Sk. Md. Masudul AhsanHandwritten Text RecognitionOptical Character Recognition

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering Khulna University of Engineering & Technology Khulna-9203, Bangladesh

  2. Which papyrus HTR is good enough? Character-error-rate tolerance of four papyrological tasks on Greek texts

    Sep 29, 2026Anton Repushko, Elena ChepelHandwritten Text RecognitionHistorical Manuscripts

    Independent Researcher, Berlin, Germany. · University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

  3. Exploring In-Context Learning for Handwritten Text Recognition

    Sep 29, 2026Eric Ayllon, Abel Gandia, Jorge Calvo-ZaragozaHandwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

  4. Handwritten Text Recognition Lives in the High-Pixel Variance Subspace

    Sep 28, 2026Carlos Garrido-Munoz, Jorge Calvo-ZaragozaHandwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

    University of Alicante, Spain

  5. Evaluating Hierarchy-Aware Deep Learning for the Recognition of Tironian Notes

    Sep 28, 2026Yule Kang, Thomas Gorges, Janne van der Loop +4Handwritten Text RecognitionAutomatic Identification System

    Pattern Recognition Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany · Buchwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany · Abteilung Handschriften und Historische Drucke, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Germany +1

  6. A Free Lunch? Adapting PP-OCRv6 for Historical Text Recognition

    Sep 17, 2026Benjamin KiesslingHandwritten Text RecognitionHistory

    ALMAnaCH · ALMAnaCH, Inria Paris

  7. Measuring Annotation Efficiency for Handwritten Devanagari Recognition: Sample-Complexity Curves for Four Pretraining Regimes

    Sep 15, 2026Manglesh Kumar Pandey, Sumit Kumar BanshalHandwritten Text RecognitionPretraining

    Alliance School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Alliance University Bengaluru, India · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Alliance University Bengaluru, India

  8. ExpertHTR: Unified Handwritten Text Recognition with Multi-Task Learning and Sparse Mixture-of-Experts

    Sep 14, 2026Dang Hoai Nam, Nguyen Duy Hieu, Quang Huu Hieu +1Handwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

    University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam · AJ Technologies, Nagoya, Japan +1

  9. Rethinking Handwritten Character Recognition

    Sep 11, 2026Ranjit Raut, Aarav Subedi, Ashim ShresthaHandwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

    Department of Artificial Intelligence Kathmandu University Dhulikhel, Nepal

  10. A statistical approach to bias in zero-shot learning: the lens of handwriting recognition

    Sep 9, 2026Clarence Chew, Gim Siang Chia, Sukalpa Chanda +2Handwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

    Department of Mathematics National University of Singapore · Dept of Comp Sc & Comm Østfold University College · Statistics and Mathematics Unit Indian Statistical Institute

  11. Towards a Joint Khmer Text Recognition and Word Segmentation

    Aug 31, 2026Marry Kong, Rina Buoy, Sovisal Chenda +3Document SegmentationHandwritten Text Recognition

    Techo Startup Center, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Phnom Penh, Cambodia · Osaka Metropolitan University, Osaka, Japan

  12. Confidence-Aware Ensemble and Long-Word Refinement for Artistic Text Recognition

    Aug 30, 2026Lucas A. Dias, Henrique A. Schulz, Rafaela de Miranda +3Handwritten Text RecognitionCharacter Error Rate

    Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil

  13. DTRNet: Dual Text-Radical Decoding for Handwritten Chinese Text Recognition with Faked Character Detection

    Aug 6, 2026Runrui Li, Lin Zhu, Hua HuangHandwritten Text RecognitionFace Forgery Detection

    School of Artificial Intelligence Beijing Normal University Beijing Key Laboratory of Intelligence for Education Engineering Research Center of Intelligent Technology and Educational Application Beijing, China

  14. A machine-readable catalogue of the Tsiolkovsky papers (fond 555, Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences), and a way to measure how well its handwriting can be read

    Aug 4, 2026Vladimir BeskorovainyiHandwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

    Besk Tech | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT)

  15. Character Iconicity vs. Arbitrariness: An Arabic NLP Perspective

    Aug 3, 2026Dorieh Alomari, Irfan Ahmad, Maged S. Al-shaibaniArabic Natural Language ProcessingArabic

    King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia · SDAIA–KFUPM JRC for AI, Saudi Arabia

  16. Spike-HTR: Spiking Neural Transformer for Handwritten Text Recognition

    Aug 3, 2026Xiubo Liang, Jinxing Han, Yuke Li +3Handwritten Text RecognitionSpiking Neural Networks

    School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo, China

  17. Logographic Character Visual Pretraining via Semantic-based Contrastive Learning

    Jul 30, 2026Daqian Shi, Wei Cao, Xiaoyu Zheng +3Handwritten Text RecognitionIterative Denoising Methods

    Queen Mary University of London London, UK · Jilin University Changchun, China · King’s College London London, UK +1

  18. From transcription to semantic corpus analysis: unsupervised learning of sentence representations for ancient languages

    Jul 27, 2026Th{é}otime de la SelleHandwritten Text RecognitionTranscription

    ISC, HiSoMA, CNRS · Institut des Sources Chrétiennes, HiSoMA, CNRS, Lyon, France

  19. CHiPS: Character Histograms and Positional Signals for Lightweight Authorship Attribution in Romanian Texts

    Jul 24, 2026Sanda-Maria Avram, George C. ŢurcaşAuthorshipHandwritten Text Recognition

    Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania · Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

  20. Persian Pixel: A large-scale synthetic OCR dataset for Persian language

    Jul 22, 2026Pouria Mahdi, Haq Nawaz MalikPersianOptical Character Recognition

  21. Multi-Expert Routing for Multi-Domain Low-Resource OCR: A Manchu Case Study

    Jul 15, 2026Zhan Chen, Jiqiao Ma, Chih-wen KuoOptical Character RecognitionHandwritten Text Recognition

    Institute of Advanced Studies, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China · Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Normal University–Hong Kong Baptist University United International College (UIC), Zhuhai, China · Independent Scholar +1

  22. Barnamala: Parameter-Efficient Handwritten Devanagari Recognition at Benchmark Saturation

    Jul 15, 2026Ashish Thapa, Samrat KarkiHandwritten Text RecognitionConvolutional Neural Networks

    Ampixa Labs · Pulchowk Campus

  23. TextileNet: Towards Zero-shot Text-style Segmentation of Manuscripts

    Jul 10, 2026Anguelos Nicolaou, Antonella Ambrosio, Desiree Di Donato +1Handwritten Text RecognitionHistorical Manuscripts

    University of Graz, Graz, Austria · Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

  24. Letter Lemmatization: One-to-one and Banded RNNs for Reversing Character-Set Simplification and Abbreviation in Medieval Text

    Jul 10, 2026Anguelos Nicolaou, Maria Pia Tiseo, Tamas Kovacs +2Handwritten Text RecognitionCharacter Error Rate

    University of Graz, Graz, Austria · University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland · Universit`a degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy

  25. TrOCR for Medieval HTR: A Systematic Ablation Study with Cross-Dataset Validation

    Jun 23, 2026Sachin Sharma, Michele Flammini, Federico SimonettaHandwritten Text RecognitionHistorical Manuscripts

    GSSI – Gran Sasso Science Institute L’Aquila, Italy

  26. Urdu Katib Handwritten Dataset: A Historical Document Dataset for Offline Urdu Handwritten Text Recognition with CRNN-Based Baseline Evaluation

    Jun 17, 2026Ramza Basharat, Muhammad Usman AliHandwritten Text RecognitionUrdu

    Department of Computer Science, University of Gujrat, Pakistan · Department of Computer Science, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan

  27. Performance Gap Analysis between Latin and Arabic Scripts HTR

    Jun 17, 2026Sana Al-azzawi, Elisa Barney, Marcus LiwickiHandwritten Text RecognitionCharacter Error Rate

    Luleå University of Technology Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering Luleå, 97187, Sweden

  28. A Text Recognition Dataset from Sahidic Coptic Ancient Manuscripts

    Jun 14, 2026Fabio Quattrini, Carmine Zaccagnino, Costanza Bianchi +2Handwritten Text RecognitionHistorical Manuscripts

    University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy

  29. Intelligent Character Recognition of Handwritten Forms with Deep Neural Networks

    Jun 7, 2026Hartwig GrabowskiHandwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

    Institute for Machine Learning and Analytics (IMLA) Offenburg University, Germany

  30. BullingerDB: A Dataset for Handwritten Text Recognition and Writer Retrieval

    May 28, 2026Marco Peer, Anna-Scius Bertrand, Patricia Scheurer +1Handwritten Text RecognitionTextual Dataset

    AIBEX Group, University of Fribourg, Switzerland · iCoSys Institute, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland · Department of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  31. METATR: A Multilingual, Evolving Benchmark for Automatic Text Recognition

    May 26, 2026Mélodie Boillet, Solène Tarride, Christopher KermorvantMultilingual BenchmarkHandwritten Text Recognition

    TEKLIA, Paris, France

  32. Embedded ConvNet Ensembles: A Lightweight Approach to Recognize Arabic Handwritten Characters

    May 18, 2026Mohsine El Khayati, Rachid Elouahbi, Abdelillah SemmaHandwritten Text RecognitionEnsemble

    Systems theory and informatics laboratory Moulay Ismail University of Meknes Meknes, Morocco · Laboratory of Computer Science and Applications Moulay Ismail University of Meknes Meknes, Morocco · Computer Science Dept. EST of Sidi Bennour Chouaib Doukkali University Eljadida, Morocco

  33. Threats to Arabic Handwriting Recognition: Investigating Black-Box Adversarial Attacks on embedded ConvNet models

    May 18, 2026Mohsine EL Khayati, Abdelillah Semma, Abdelaziz Courr +1Handwritten Text RecognitionBlack-Box Adversarial Attacks

    Systems theory and informatics laboratory Moulay Ismail University of Meknes Meknes, Morocco · Department of Computer Science EST of Sidi Bennour Chouaib Doukkali University Eljadida, Morocco · Faculty of Education Sciences University Mohammed V Rabat, Morocco +1

  34. Confidence-Guided Diffusion Augmentation for Enhanced Bangla Compound Character Recognition

    May 11, 2026Md. Sultan Al RayhanHandwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering East West University, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  35. Zero-Shot Chinese Character Recognition via Global-Local Dual-Branch Alignment and Hierarchical Inference

    May 9, 2026Wei Cao, Hao Xu, Xiaolei DiaoHandwritten Text RecognitionFine-Grained Perception

    1Jilin University, China · University College London, UK

  36. Understanding Cross-Language Transfer Improvements in Low-Resource HTR: The Role of Sequence Modeling

    May 7, 2026Sana Al-azzawi, Chang Liu, Nudrat Habib +2Cross-Lingual TransferHandwritten Text Recognition

    Luleå University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering , Luleå, Sweden · Luleá University of Technology, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering , Luleå, Sweden

  37. Cross-Lingual Learning within Arabic Script for Low-Resource HTR

    May 3, 2026Sana Al-azzawi, Elisa Barney, Marcus LiwickiHandwritten Text RecognitionCross-Lingual Transfer

    Luleå University of Technology Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering Luleå, 97187, Sweden

  38. Different Strokes for Different Folks: Writer Identification for Historical Arabic Manuscripts

    Apr 24, 2026Hamza A. Abushahla, Ariel Justine N. Panopio, Layth Al-Khairulla +1Handwritten Text RecognitionAuthorship

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah 26666, United Arab Emirates

  39. Adapting TrOCR for Printed Tigrinya Text Recognition: Word-Aware Loss Weighting for Cross-Script Transfer Learning

    Apr 22, 2026Yonatan Haile Medhanie, Yuanhua NiHandwritten Text RecognitionOptical Character Recognition

    College of Software Engineering, Nankai University, Tianjin, China · College of Artificial Intelligence, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

  40. GryphOne: Symbol-Aware Masked Diffusion for Structural Refinement in Offline Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition

    Feb 3, 2026Takaya Kawakatsu, Ryo IshiyamaHandwritingHandwritten Text Recognition

    Preferred Networks, Inc., Otemachi, Tokyo, Japan · Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

  41. Rotation-free Online Handwritten Character Recognition Using Linear Recurrent Units

    Feb 2, 2026Zhe Ling, Sicheng Yu, Danyu YangHandwritten Text RecognitionBidirectional Long Short-Term Memory

    College of Mathematics and Statistics, Chongqing University, China

  42. Encoding Tactile Stimuli for Braille Recognition with Organoids

    Aug 28, 2025Tianyi Liu, Hemma Philamore, Benjamin Ward-CherrierTissueTactile

    School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, United Kingdom · School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom