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  1. LinePilot Digitizer: Line-Plot Recovery with Manual and Automatic Calibration

    Sep 16, 2026Fengbo Ma, Rayan Akhtar, Aakash H. Joshi +5Optical Character RecognitionMulticalibration and Calibration

  2. Using OCR Heads to Verbalize Image Semantics

    Sep 16, 2026Sheridan Feucht, Benno Krojer, Sarah Wang +3Optical Character RecognitionModel Interpretability

  3. Combining Synthetic and Real Data for Low-Resource Historical OCR: A Manchu Case Study

    Sep 11, 2026Yan Hon Michael Chung, Hanlin WangOptical Character RecognitionTraining Data

  4. Two-Token Features and Small-Large Ensembles for VLM Hallucination Detection

    Sep 9, 2026Eli SchwartzOptical Character RecognitionEnsemble

  5. EMBLEM: Enhancing Multi-script Table Detection through Masking

    Sep 8, 2026Dhruv Kudale, Udhay Brahmi, Ganesh RamakrishnanOptical Character RecognitionLatin

  6. When Superpixels Fail on Documents: A Study of Segmentation for LIME Explanations

    Sep 7, 2026Quentin Telnoff, Emanuela Boros, Mickaël Coustaty +3Optical Character RecognitionImage Classification

  7. KhatianDoc: A Human-Verified Benchmark Diagnosing Multimodal LLM Failure on Bengali Legal Land Records

    Sep 3, 2026Tasmiad Hasan, Arafat Zaman Ratul, Sarker Sadman Saalim +3BanglaLegal Domain

  8. How Far Can Synthetic Data Take Thai OCR?

    Sep 3, 2026Kunat PipatanakulOptical Character RecognitionDeepseek-Ocr

  9. OCR-EDR: Rendering-Aware Diagnosis and Repair for Closed-Loop OCR Improvement

    Sep 3, 2026Linnan Zhao, Kang Liu, Hao Yu +3Optical Character RecognitionAuc-Roc

  10. Closing Cost-Quality Gap in Document VLMs: Difficulty-Aware Data Curation and Quality-Adjusted Deployment Economics

    Sep 1, 2026Maksim Evdokimov, Matvey Ivanov, Dmitrii Tsiupin +3Ava-VlmOptical Character Recognition

  11. Beyond Blind Compliance: Benchmarking Task Verification in OCR Reasoning

    Aug 31, 2026Yue Zhou, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangOptical Character RecognitionConformity

  12. JieZi: A Large-Scale Expert-Audited Dataset and Benchmark for Ancient Chinese Character Exegesis

    Aug 12, 2026Ran Li, Huiguo He, Jiahuan Cao +3Optical Character Recognition

  13. TongGuOCR: A Layout-Aware and Token-Augmented OCR MLLM for Chinese Historical Documents

    Aug 8, 2026Zhongheng Zhou, Yi Sun, Huiguo He +6Optical Character RecognitionLongbench

  14. Coupled Continuous-Discrete Generation for Scene Text Image Super-Resolution

    Aug 5, 2026Axi Niu, Knag Zhang, Qingsen Yan +3Generative Super-ResolutionMultimodal Transformers

  15. Q-CueGraph: Query-Conditioned Visual Evidence Graphs for Multimodal Reasoning

    Aug 5, 2026Pengcheng Pan, Xinfang ZhangVisual EvidenceMultimodal Reasoning

  16. BanglaWild: An In-the-Wild Bengali Scene Text Recognition Benchmark for OCR and Vision-Language Models

    Aug 4, 2026Sadab Shiper, Tawsif Tashwar Dipto, Mir Md Inzamam +1Optical Character RecognitionMultimodal Benchmarks

  17. MarkushGlyph and OCSRGlyph: Improved Chemical Structure Recognition

    Jul 30, 2026Alex Andonian, Samuel G Rodriques, Andrew D White +1Vast Chemical SpaceOptical Character Recognition

  18. When Low CER is Not Enough: An Analysis of Hallucinations in Vision-Language OCR Systems on Historical Uruguayan Documents

    Jul 27, 2026Marina Gardella, Camilo Mariño, Diego Belzarena +3Optical Character RecognitionWord Error Rate

  19. Token-Region Guided Cross-Attention Fusion for Multimodal Affect Interpretation

    Jul 26, 2026Musa Tur Farazi, Nufayer Jahan RezaBanglaMultimodal Learning

  20. grapheme-kit: Grapheme-Level Metrics and Text Processing for Multilingual NLP

    Jul 24, 2026Izzath Nisfer, Ashini Kavindya, Ovindu Atukorala +2Optical Character RecognitionWord Error Rate

  21. LayoutLite: Token-Level Implicit Layout Analysis for Efficient Document OCR

    Jul 24, 2026Xudong Liu, Bicheng Wan, Yulin JinOptical Character RecognitionVision Encoders

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

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

  23. ERank in Latent Space as an Image-Complexity and Richness Measure

    Jul 21, 2026Maksim Smirnov, Grigory Kononov, Anastasiia Linich +2RankingOptical Character Recognition

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

    Jul 15, 2026Zhan Chen, Jiqiao Ma, Chih-wen KuoOptical Character RecognitionHandwriting

  25. LEXIC: Lightweight On-Device Decoding of Reading Comprehension from Eye Movements

    Jul 9, 2026Sumin Lee, Kyeonghun Kim, Subeen Lee +5ReadingOptical Character Recognition

  26. When Simpler Is Better: Evaluating Translation Pipelines for Medieval Latin Manuscripts

    Jul 4, 2026Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, Md. Easin Arafat, Tamás Gábor Orosz +1Machine TranslationOptical Character Recognition

  27. ClinOCR-Bench: A Comprehensive Clinical Scanned Document Dataset for Optical Character Recognition Model Evaluation

    Jul 4, 2026Enshuo Hsu, Jin Zhou, Kirk RobertsOptical Character RecognitionMedical Imaging Datasets

  28. Evaluating Vision-Language Models as a Zero-Shot Learning Alternative to You Only Look Once and Optical Character Recognition for Nigerian License Plate Recognition

    Jul 2, 2026Ismail Ismail Tijjani, Ahmad Abubakar Mustapaha, Sunusi Ibrahim Muhammad +1License Plate Character DetectionOptical Character Recognition

  29. Semantic-Guided Reading Order Reconstruction in Historical Armenian Newspapers with LLMs

    Jul 1, 2026Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Nadi Tomeh, Victoria KhurshudyanOptical Character RecognitionTextual Dataset

  30. Can OCR-VLMs Read Devanagari? A Stress-Test Benchmark and Post-Correction Study

    Jun 28, 2026Aditya Pratap SinghOptical Character RecognitionLatin

  31. Character Recognition of Nepali Number Plate

    Jun 27, 2026Satyasa Khadka, Sandhya Baral, Sudip Tiwari +1License Plate Character DetectionOptical Character Recognition

  32. How Robust is OCR-Reasoning? Evaluating OCR-Reasoning Robustness of Vision-Language Models under Visual Perturbations

    Jun 24, 2026Yuxing Cheng, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangDeepseek-OcrOptical Character Recognition

  33. Edges Before Embeddings: A Confidence-Aware Blur Gate for Vision-Language Pipelines

    Jun 24, 2026Duy Tran ThanhMotion BlurImage Quality Assessment

  34. Scaling State-Space Models from Lines to Paragraphs: An Ablation of Mamba-based OCR

    Jun 22, 2026Merveilles Agbeti-Messan, Pierrick Tranouez, Stéphane Nicolas +2State Space ModelsOptical Character Recognition

  35. Koshur Pixel: a large-scale synthetic ocr dataset for kashmiri

    Jun 22, 2026Haq Nawaz Malik, Faizan Iqbal, Nahfid NissarOptical Character RecognitionLow-Resource Languages

  36. Unlimited OCR Works

    Jun 22, 2026Youyang Yin, Huanhuan Liu, YY +14Deepseek-OcrOptical Character Recognition

  37. SAFE-Cascade: Cost-Adaptive Vision-Language Routing for Chart Question Answering

    Jun 17, 2026Ayush Dwivedi, Qixin Wang, Ashvi Soni +5Knowledge-Based Visual Question AnsweringChart

  38. PorTEXTO: A European Portuguese Benchmark for Visual Text Extraction

    Jun 17, 2026João Cardeira, Diogo Glória-Silva, Manuel Letras da Luz +4Optical Character RecognitionPortuguese

  39. Stringalign: Moving beyond summary statistics with a transparent Unicode-aware tool for evaluating automatic transcription models

    Jun 14, 2026Yngve Mardal Moe, Marie RoaldTranscriptionOptical Character Recognition

  40. PP-OCRv6: From 1.5M to 34.5M Parameters, Surpassing Billion-Scale VLMs on OCR Tasks

    Jun 11, 2026Yubo Zhang, Xueqing Wang, Manhui Lin +13Deepseek-OcrOptical Character Recognition

  41. A Mathematical Forum Platform for Collaborative Problem Solving and Dataset Generation for AI Reasoning

    Jun 11, 2026Akbar Erkinov, Nurmukhammad AbdurasulovMath ProblemsMathematical Reasoning

  42. Magnifying What Matters: Attention-Guided Adaptive Rendering for Visual Text Comprehension

    Jun 11, 2026Shenglai Zeng, Qirui Wang, Kai Guo +3Visual Document RetrievalOptical Character Recognition

  43. MUDIDI: A Two-Stage Framework for Multilingual Dictionary Digitization with Language Models

    Jun 8, 2026David Setiawan, Temuulen Khishigsuren, Milind Agarwal +3Optical Character RecognitionMultilingual

  44. Vision Language Model Helps Private Information De-Identification in Vision Data

    Jun 8, 2026Tiejin Chen, Pingzhi Li, Kaixiong Zhou +2AnonymizationImage-Text Pairs

  45. Handwriting Extraction and Analysis of Signature Lists in Swiss Popular Initiatives

    Jun 3, 2026Marco Peer, Thomas Gorges, Mathias Seuret +2Handwritten Text RecognitionHandwriting

  46. End-to-End Text Line Detection and Ordering

    Jun 2, 2026Benjamin KiesslingOptical Character RecognitionReading

  47. Residual Decoder Adapter: ID-Preserving Tokenizer Adaption for Autoregressive Text Rendering

    Jun 1, 2026Dongxing Mao, Jinpeng Wang, Jiahao Tang +6Autoregressive Image GenerationVisual Autoregressive Models

  48. Compliance-Scored Best-of-N Guardrail Orchestration for Multimodal Document Generation in Payments Dispute Defense

    Jun 1, 2026Nataraj Agaram Sundar, Tejas MorabiaComplianceStreaming Guardrails

  49. Dr. DocBench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Expert-Level and Difficult Document Parsing

    May 31, 2026Minglai Yang, Xinyan Velocity Yu, Pengyuan Li +22Optical Character RecognitionAnnotations

  50. Comparative Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems on Images with Text

    May 28, 2026Blai Puchol, Sergio Gómez González, Miguel Domingo +1Image-To-Image TranslationImage-Text Pairs

  51. Reading or Guessing? Visual Grounding Failures of Vision-Language Models for OCR in Ancient Greek Editions

    May 26, 2026Antonia Karamolegkou, Nicolas Angleraud, Benoît Sagot +1Optical Character RecognitionAncient Greek

  52. Page image classifier fine-tuned on century-spanning archives of scanned documents for further content-specific processing

    May 25, 2026Kateryna Lutsai, Dana Křivánková, Pavel Straňák +1Image ClassificationOptical Character Recognition

  53. MinerU-Popo: Universal Post-Processing Model for Structured Document Parsing

    May 24, 2026Bangrui Xu, Ziyang Miao, Xuanhe Zhou +8Deepseek-OcrOptical Character Recognition

  54. Manga109-v2026: Revisiting Manga109 Annotations for Modern Manga Understanding

    May 20, 2026Jeonghun Baek, Atsuyuki Miyai, Shota Onohara +2AnnotationsOptical Character Recognition

  55. How Do Document Parsers Break? Auditing Structural Vulnerability in Document Intelligence

    May 19, 2026Yue Chen, Yihao Wang, Ziyi Tang +2Algorithm AuditingOptical Character Recognition

  56. FastOCR: Dynamic Visual Fixation via KV Cache Pruning for Efficient Document Parsing

    May 17, 2026Zihan Tang, Leqi Shen, Hui Chen +7Deepseek-OcrOptical Character Recognition

  57. StyleText: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Stylized Scene Text Inpainting

    May 17, 2026Aleksandr Simonyan, Nipun JindalScene Text RecognitionInpainting

  58. Operationalizing Document AI: A Microservice Architecture for OCR and LLM Pipelines in Production

    May 12, 2026Yao Fehlis, Benjamin Bengfort, Zhangzhang Si +9Optical Character RecognitionLarge Language Model Pipelines

  59. Chronicles-OCR: A Cross-Temporal Perception Benchmark for the Evolutionary Trajectory of Chinese Characters

    May 12, 2026Gengluo Li, Shangpin Peng, Xingyu Wan +16Optical Character RecognitionDeepseek-Ocr

  60. Key Coverage Matters: Semi-Structured Extraction of OCR Clinical Reports

    May 10, 2026Yu Wang, Yingyun Li, Ying Qin +1Clinical NotesElectronic Health Records