Optical Character Recognition

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  1. MinerU-Diffusion: Rethinking Document OCR as Inverse Rendering via Diffusion Decoding

    Mar 23, 2026Hejun Dong, Junbo Niu, Bin Wang +3Optical Character RecognitionDiffusion Language Model Decoding

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, OpenDataLab · Peking University

  2. BHDD: A Burmese Handwritten Digit Dataset

    Mar 23, 2026Swan Htet Aung, Hein Htet, Htoo Say Wah Khaing +1Optical Character RecognitionImage Classification

    Expa.AI Research Team, Yangon, Myanmar

  3. Detached Skip-Links and RR-Probe: Decoupling Feature Aggregation from Gradient Propagation for MLLM OCR

    Mar 20, 2026Ziye Yuan, Ruchang Yao, Chengxin Zheng +3Multimodal Large Language ModelsMultimodal Learning

    State Key Laboratory for Multimedia Information Processing, School of Computer Science, PKU-Anker LLM Lab, Beijing Key Laboratory of Software and Hardware Cooperative Artificial Intelligence Systems, Peking University, Beijing, China · Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Baidu Inc, Beijing, China

  4. Geometric Risk Control for Vision-Language Model OCR

    Mar 20, 2026Weile Gong, Zijian Lu, Mingcai Chen +3VLM Hallucination MitigationOptical Character Recognition

    Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Nanjing, China

  5. myMNIST: Benchmark of PETNN, KAN, and Classical Deep Learning Models for Burmese Handwritten Digit Recognition

    Mar 19, 2026Ye Kyaw Thu, Thazin Myint Oo, Thepchai SupnithiOptical Character RecognitionKolmogorov-Arnold Networks

    National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (NECTEC), Pathumthani, Thailand · Language Understanding Lab., Yangon, Myanmar

  6. Multi-Modal Character Localization and Extraction for Chinese Text Recognition

    Mar 14, 2026Qilong Li, Chongsheng ZhangScene Text RecognitionOptical Character Recognition

    School of Computer and Information Engineering and the Henan Provincial Key Laboratory of Big Data Analysis and Processing, Henan University, Kaifeng, P.R. China.

  7. Multimodal OCR: Parse Anything from Documents

    Mar 13, 2026Handong Zheng, Yumeng Li, Kaile Zhang +22Document ParsingDocument Image Understanding

    Huazhong University of Science and Technology · hi lab, Xiaohongshu Inc

  8. LingDT-VL-OCR: Structure-Aware Document-Level Parsing with Fine-Grained Visual Reference

    Mar 11, 2026Siyi Qian, Xiongfei Bai, Bingtao Fu +4Table Structure RecognitionDocument Parsing

    Ant Group

  9. Qianfan-OCR: A Unified End-to-End Model for Document Intelligence

    Mar 11, 2026Daxiang Dong, Mingming Zheng, Dong Xu +17Document Image UnderstandingOptical Character Recognition

  10. GLM-OCR Technical Report

    Mar 11, 2026Shuaiqi Duan, Yadong Xue, Weihan Wang +20Optical Character RecognitionDocument Understanding

    Zhipu AI · Tsinghua University

  11. A Robust Deep Learning Framework for Bangla License Plate Recognition Using YOLO and Vision-Language OCR

    Mar 10, 2026Nayeb Hasin, Md. Arafath Rahman Nishat, Mainul Islam +2Automatic License Plate RecognitionObject Detection

    Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bangladesh University Of Engineering And Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh

  12. The Patrologia Graeca Corpus: OCR, Annotation, and Open Release of Noisy Nineteenth-Century Polytonic Greek Editions

    Mar 10, 2026Chahan Vidal-Gorène, Bastien KindtHistorical Document ProcessingOptical Character Recognition

    CJM, LIPN · École nationale des chartes – PSL, Paris, France · Calfa, Paris, France +1

  13. A Hybrid Vision Transformer Approach for Mathematical Expression Recognition

    Mar 9, 2026Anh Duy Le, Van Linh Pham, Vinh Loi Ly +3Document Image UnderstandingVision Transformer

    Viettel Cyberspace Center, Viettel Group, Vietnam. Lot D26 Cau Giay New Urban Area, Yen Hoa Ward, Cau Giay District, Hanoi, Vietnam. · Faculty of Computer Science & Engineering, Ho Chi Minh City-University of Technology (HCMUT), 268 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. · Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City, Linh Trung Ward, Thu Duc District, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

  14. AMR-CCR: Anchored Modular Retrieval for Continual Chinese Character Recognition

    Mar 8, 2026Yuchuan Wu, Yinglian Zhu, Haiyang Yu +3Optical Character RecognitionClass-Incremental Learning

    Fudan University, Shanghai, China

  15. Whispering to a Blackbox: Bootstrapping Frozen OCR with Visual Prompts

    Mar 5, 2026Samandar Samandarov, Nazirjon Ismoiljonov, Abdullah Sattorov +1Visual Prompt LearningOptical Character Recognition

    Duke University

  16. DISCO: Document Intelligence Suite for COmparative Evaluation

    Mar 4, 2026Kenza Benkirane, Dan Goldwater, Martin Asenov +1Document UnderstandingDocument Image Understanding

    Parexel AI Labs, London, United Kingdom · Parexel AI Labs, San Francisco, United-States

  17. An Effective Data Augmentation Method by Asking Questions about Scene Text Images

    Mar 3, 2026Xu Yao, Lei KangOptical Character RecognitionScene Text Recognition

    Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, Spain

  18. Structure-Aware Text Recognition for Ancient Greek Critical Editions

    Mar 3, 2026Nicolas Angleraud, Antonia Karamolegkou, Benoît Sagot +1Optical Character RecognitionVLM Evaluation

    Inria, Paris, France

  19. Maximizing Generalization: The Effect of Different Augmentation Techniques on Lightweight Vision Transformer for Bengali Character Classification

    Mar 3, 2026Rafi Hassan Chowdhury, Naimul Haque, Kaniz FatihaData AugmentationOptical Character Recognition

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur 1704, Bangladesh

  20. FireRed-OCR Technical Report

    Mar 2, 2026Hao Wu, Haoran Lou, Xinyue Li +19Optical Character RecognitionDocument Parsing

    Super Intelligence Team, Xiaohongshu Inc.

  21. BornoViT: A Novel Efficient Vision Transformer for Bengali Handwritten Basic Characters Classification

    Feb 28, 2026Rafi Hassan Chowdhury, Naimul Haque, Kaniz FatihaOptical Character RecognitionEfficient ViTs

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Islamic University of Technology, Gazipur 1704, Bangladesh

  22. Reward-Modulated Local Learning in Spiking Encoders: Controlled Benchmarks with STDP and Hybrid Rate Readouts

    Feb 28, 2026Debjyoti ChakrabortySpiking Neural NetworksLocal Learning

    Researcher

  23. Towards Universal Khmer Text Recognition

    Feb 28, 2026Marry Kong, Rina Buoy, Sovisal Chenda +3Optical Character RecognitionLow-Resource Language Processing

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

  24. AgenticOCR: Parsing Only What You Need for Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation

    Feb 27, 2026Zhengren Wang, Dongsheng Ma, Huaping Zhong +4Multimodal RAGVisual Document Retrieval

    Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Peking University · SenseTime

  25. Shape vs. Context: Examining Human--AI Gaps in Ambiguous Japanese Character Recognition

    Feb 27, 2026Daichi HaraguchiVLM EvaluationVision-Language Alignment

    CyberAgent, Tokyo, Japan

  26. SimpleOCR: Rendering Visualized Questions to Teach MLLMs to Read

    Feb 25, 2026Yibo Peng, Peng Xia, Ding Zhong +6Multimodal Large Language ModelsOptical Character Recognition

    UNC-Chapel Hill · Carnegie Mellon University · University of Michigan +1

  27. OCR-Agent: Agentic OCR with Capability and Memory Reflection

    Feb 24, 2026Shimin Wen, Zeyu Zhang, Xingdou Bian +5Vision-Language ModelsVLM Reasoning

    Southwest Minzu University · AI Geeks

  28. OmniOCR: Generalist OCR for Ethnic Minority Languages

    Feb 24, 2026Bonan Liu, Zeyu Zhang, Bingbing Meng +5Optical Character RecognitionLow-Resource Language Processing

    Southwest Minzu University · AI Geeks

  29. PositionOCR: Augmenting Positional Awareness in Multi-Modal Models via Hybrid Specialist Integration

    Feb 22, 2026Chen Duan, Zhentao Guo, Pei Fu +3Multimodal Large Language ModelsOptical Character Recognition

  30. A Multi-Stage Framework for Kuzushiji Character Recognition in Japanese Historical Documents

    Feb 22, 2026Rui-Yang Ju, Kohei Yamashita, Hirotaka Kameko +1Optical Character RecognitionHistorical Document Processing

    Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan · Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan