Optical Character Recognition

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  1. CC-OCR V2: Benchmarking Large Multimodal Models for Literacy in Real-world Document Processing

    May 5, 2026Zhipeng Xu, Junhao Ji, Zulong Chen +10Document UnderstandingMultimodal Large Language Models

    Alibaba Group · Northeastern University

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

    May 3, 2026Sana Al-azzawi, Elisa Barney, Marcus LiwickiOnline Handwriting RecognitionLow-Resource Language Processing

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

  3. Democratizing the medieval English legal tradition

    May 1, 2026Michael Zhang, Elise Wang, Charlotte Whatley +2Online Handwriting RecognitionOptical Character Recognition

    University of Chicago, Chicago IL 60637 · California State University, Fullerton CA 92831 · University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI 53706 +2

  4. RTPrune: Reading-Twice Inspired Token Pruning for Efficient DeepSeek-OCR Inference

    May 1, 2026Ben Wan, Yan Feng, Zihan Tang +4Efficient VLM InferenceOptical Character Recognition

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University · University of Science and Technology of China · Tsinghua University

  5. When Good OCR Is Not Enough: Benchmarking OCR Robustness for Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Apr 29, 2026Lin Sun, Wang Dexian, Jingang Huang +4RAG EvaluationOptical Character Recognition

    Beijing Qiyuan Technology

  6. Benchmarking OCR Pipelines with Adaptive Enhancement for Multi-Domain Retail Bill Digitization

    Apr 28, 2026Vijaysinh GaikwadOptical Character RecognitionDocument Image Understanding

    Data Analytics Team Lead, JP Research India Pvt. Ltd., Pune, India

  7. Reading in the Dark: Low-light Scene Text Recognition

    Apr 26, 2026Xuanshuo Fu, Lei Kang, Ernest Valveny +2Scene Text RecognitionLow-Light Image Enhancement

    Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain

  8. COMO: Closed-Loop Optical Molecule Recognition with Minimum Risk Training

    Apr 26, 2026Zhuoqi Lyu, Qing KeOptical Character Recognition

    Department of Data Science, College of Computing, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

  9. TexOCR: Advancing Document OCR Models for Compilable Page-to-LaTeX Reconstruction

    Apr 24, 2026Chengye Wang, Lin Fu, Zexi Kuang +1Optical Character RecognitionDocument Image Understanding

    Zhejiang University · Yale University

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

    Apr 22, 2026Yonatan Haile Medhanie, Yuanhua NiTransfer LearningOptical Character Recognition

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

  11. DharmaOCR: Specialized Small Language Models for Structured OCR that outperform Open-Source and Commercial Baselines

    Apr 15, 2026Gabriel Pimenta de Freitas Cardoso, Caio Lucas da Silva Chacon, Jonas Felipe da Fonseca Oliveira +1Optical Character Recognition

    Dharma-AI

  12. GlotOCR Bench: OCR Models Still Struggle Beyond a Handful of Unicode Scripts

    Apr 14, 2026Amir Hossein Kargaran, Nafiseh Nikeghbal, Jana Diesner +2Optical Character RecognitionMultilingual VLM Evaluation

    LMU Munich · MCML · TU Munich +1

  13. The Devil is in the Details -- From OCR for Old Church Slavonic to Purely Visual Stemma Reconstruction

    Apr 13, 2026Armin HoenenOptical Character Recognition

    Department of Empirical Linguistics, University of Frankfurt

  14. Revise: A Framework for Revising OCRed text in Practical Information Systems with Data Contamination Strategy

    Apr 9, 2026Gyuho Shim, Seongtae Hong, Heuiseok LimDocument Image UnderstandingOptical Character Recognition

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University · Human-inspired AI Research

  15. AtlasOCR: Building the First Open-Source Darija OCR Model with Vision Language Models

    Apr 9, 2026Imane Momayiz, Soufiane Ait Elaouad, Abdeljalil Elmajjodi +1Optical Character Recognition

  16. Multi-Head Attention based interaction-aware architecture for Bangla Handwritten Character Recognition: Introducing a Primary Dataset

    Apr 8, 2026Mirza Raquib, Asif Pervez Polok, Kedar Nath Biswas +3Optical Character RecognitionHybrid CNN-Transformer Architectures

    Department of Computer and Communication Engineering, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh. · mPower Social Enterprise. · Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Noakhali Science and Technology University, Bangladesh. +2

  17. The Character Error Vector: Decomposable errors for page-level OCR evaluation

    Apr 7, 2026Jonathan Bourne, Mwiza Simbeye, Joseph NockelsAutomated EvaluationOptical Character Recognition

  18. Fine-tuning DeepSeek-OCR-2 for Molecular Structure Recognition

    Apr 3, 2026Haocheng Tang, Xingyu Dang, Junmei WangOptical Character Recognition

    School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Computational Chemical Genomics Screening Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA · Khoury College of Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA +1

  19. A Benchmark of State-Space Models vs. Transformers and BiLSTM-based Models for Historical Newspaper OCR

    Apr 1, 2026Merveilles Agbeti-Messan, Pierrick Tranouez, Stéphane Nicolas +2Selective SSMsTransformer

    LITIS EA4108, University of Rouen Normandy, France · LITIS EA4108, INSA of Rouen Normandy, France

  20. When VLMs 'Fix' Students: Identifying and Penalizing Over-Correction in the Evaluation of Multi-line Handwritten Math OCR

    Apr 1, 2026Jin Seong, Wencke Liermann, Minho Kim +2Optical Character RecognitionVLM Evaluation

    Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Republic of Korea

  21. Lead Zirconate Titanate Reservoir Computing for Classification of Written and Spoken Digits

    Mar 31, 2026Thomas Buckley, Leslie Schumm, Manor Askenazi +1Reservoir ComputingImage Classification

    Manning College of Information and Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 · Now at Harvard · Independent Researcher, Chicago, IL +2

  22. Q-Mask: Query-driven Causal Masks for Text Anchoring in OCR-Oriented Vision-Language Models

    Mar 31, 2026Longwei Xu, Feng Feng, Shaojie Zhang +7Optical Character RecognitionVision-Language Models

    MiLM Plus, Xiaomi Inc

  23. Diffusion-Based Feature Denoising with NNMF for Robust handwritten digit multi-class classification

    Mar 31, 2026Hiba Adil Al-kharsan, Róbert RajkóMulticlass ClassificationAdversarial Robustness

    Doctoral School of Computer Science, University of Szeged, Árpád tér 2, H-6720 Szeged, Hungary · University Research and Innovation Center (EKIK), Óbuda University, Bécsi út 96/b, H-1034 Budapest, Hungary

  24. Few-shot Writer Adaptation via Multimodal In-Context Learning

    Mar 31, 2026Tom Simon, Stephane Nicolas, Pierrick Tranouez +2Optical Character RecognitionFew-Shot Learning

    LITIS EA4108, University of Rouen Normandy, France · LITIS EA4108, INSA of Rouen Normandy, France

  25. Quid est VERITAS? A Modular Framework for Archival Document Analysis

    Mar 30, 2026Leonardo Bassanini, Ludovico Biancardi, Alfio Ferrara +3Historical Document AnalysisHistorical Document Processing

    Università degli Studi di Milano, University Library Service Via Santa Sofia, 7/9 - 20122 Milano (Italy) · Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - 20122 Milano (Italy) · Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Historical Studies Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - 20122 Milano (Italy) +1

  26. Transcription and Recognition of Italian Parliamentary Speeches Using Vision-Language Models

    Mar 30, 2026Luigi Curini, Alfio Ferrara, Giovanni Pagano +1Document Information ExtractionDocument Understanding

    Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Social and Political Sciences, Via Conservatorio, 7 - 20122 Milano (Italy) · Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Literary Studies, Philology and Linguistics, Via Festa del Perdono, 7 - 20122 Milano (Italy) · Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Computer Science, Via Celoria, 18 - 20133 Milano (Italy)

  27. Efficient Domain Adaptation for Text Line Recognition via Decoupled Language Models

    Mar 30, 2026Arundhathi Dev, Justin ZhanOptical Character RecognitionUnsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Department of Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA

  28. Falcon Perception

    Mar 28, 2026Aviraj Bevli, Sofian Chaybouti, Yasser Dahou +6Large Vision-Language ModelsLong-Context VLMs

    Falcon Vision Team, TII

  29. A Survey of OCR Evaluation Methods and Metrics and the Invisibility of Historical Documents

    Mar 26, 2026Fitsum Sileshi Beyene, Christopher L. DancyOptical Character RecognitionDocument Understanding

    The Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

  30. PP-OCRv5: A Specialized 5M-Parameter Model Rivaling Billion-Parameter Vision-Language Models on OCR Tasks

    Mar 25, 2026Cheng Cui, Yubo Zhang, Ting Sun +11Optical Character RecognitionTraining Data Curation

    PaddlePaddle Team, Baidu Inc.