Optical Character Recognition

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

    Aug 6, 2026Runrui Li, Lin Zhu, Hua HuangOptical Character Recognition

    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

  2. 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 +1VLM EvaluationScene Text Recognition

    Islamic University of Technology, Bangladesh · BRAC University, Bangladesh

  3. 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 BeskorovainyiLibrary and Information ScienceOnline Handwriting Recognition

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

  4. MinerU.Chem: A High-Precision System for Optical Chemical Structure and Reaction Recognition

    Aug 4, 2026Haote Yang, Jiang Wu, Jingchao Wang +42Document Information ExtractionOptical Character Recognition

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

    Jul 30, 2026Daqian Shi, Wei Cao, Xiaoyu Zheng +3Contrastive LearningVisual Representation Learning

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

  6. MarkushGlyph and OCSRGlyph: Improved Chemical Structure Recognition

    Jul 30, 2026Alex Andonian, Samuel G Rodriques, Andrew D White +1Vision-Language ModelsOptical Character Recognition

    1Edison Scientific

  7. Reading Legends on Ancient Coins: An Object Detection Approach for Character Recognition on a Novel Roman Republican Dataset

    Jul 28, 2026Hafeez AnwarObject DetectionOptical Character Recognition

    Department of Computer Science, National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences (FAST-NUCES), Peshawar, 25000, Pakistan

  8. 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 +3VLM EvaluationVLM Hallucination

    CB · Université Paris-Saclay, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Centre Borelli, France · UDELAR, CB +4

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

    Jul 24, 2026Xudong Liu, Bicheng Wan, Yulin JinEfficient VLM InferenceDocument Layout Analysis

    1Yuanli Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. · 2Beijing Normal University

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

    Jul 22, 2026Pouria Mahdi, Haq Nawaz MalikSynthetic Data GenerationLow-Resource Language Processing

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

    Jul 15, 2026Zhan Chen, Jiqiao Ma, Chih-wen KuoMixture-of-Experts ModelsOptical Character 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

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

    Jul 15, 2026Ashish Thapa, Samrat KarkiCorruption RobustnessConvolutional Neural Networks

    Ampixa Labs · Pulchowk Campus

  13. OvisOCR2 Technical Report

    Jul 15, 2026Shiyin Lu, Yinglun Li, Yu Xia +10Document ParsingOptical Character Recognition

    ATH-MaaS, Alibaba Group

  14. MonkeyOCRv2: A Visual-Text Foundation Model for Document AI

    Jul 13, 2026Yuliang Liu, Zhang Li, Ziyang Zhang +11Document ParsingMultimodal Foundation Models

    1Huazhong University of Science and Technology · 2Kingsoft Office

  15. 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 +2Recurrent Neural NetworksOptical Character Recognition

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

  16. ICDAR 2026 HIPE-OCRepair Competition on LLM-Assisted OCR Post-Correction for Historical Documents

    Jul 9, 2026Maud Ehrmann, Emanuela Boros, Juri Opitz +3Historical Document AnalysisLLM Evaluation

    1 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland · University of Zurich, Switzerland

  17. FedTR: Federated Learning Framework with Transfer Learning for Industrial Visual Inspection

    Jul 9, 2026Vikash Sathiamoorthy, Shuo Huai, Hao Kong +7Industrial InspectionOptical Character Recognition

    HP-NTU Digital Manufacturing Corporate Lab, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore · Department of Computer Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway +2

  18. HunyuanOCR-1.5: Making Lightweight OCR VLMs Faster and Better

    Jul 6, 2026Gengluo Li, Xingyu Wan, Shangpin Peng +20Vision-Language ModelsEfficient VLM Inference

    Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Large Language Model Department, Tencent · Nankai University

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

    Jul 4, 2026Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, Md. Easin Arafat, Tamás Gábor Orosz +1VLM EvaluationLow-Resource MT

    Eötvös Loránd University · King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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

    Jul 4, 2026Enshuo Hsu, Jin Zhou, Kirk RobertsVLM EvaluationOptical Character Recognition

    McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA. · Enterprise Development & Integration, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.

  21. 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 +1VLM EvaluationZero-Shot Learning

    department of Mechatronics Engineering, Bayero University Kano(BUK). Kano, Nigeria. · School of Computer Science and Engineering, VIT-AP Uiversity, Andhra Pradesh, India. · department of Petroleum Engineering Bayero University Kano(BUK). Kano, Nigeria. +1

  22. LV-ROVER-MLT: Low-Resource Maltese OCR by Multi-Stream Voting

    Jun 30, 2026Adam DarmaninLow-Resource Language ProcessingOptical Character Recognition

    Independent Researcher

  23. Enhancing Oracle Bone Inscription Recognition via Multi-Scale Layer Attention

    Jun 30, 2026Chaowen Yan, Kaishen Wang, Yong Wang +2Multi-Scale Feature FusionAttention Mechanisms

    aAcademy of Chinese Traditional Culture, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China · bCollege of Computer Science, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China · cSchool of Artificial Intelligence, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

  24. Cross-Temporal Sinhala OCR: Page-Level Adaptation and Diachronic Analysis

    Jun 28, 2026Avisha Dilhara, Nevidu JayatillekeLow-Resource Language ProcessingOptical Character Recognition

    School of Computing, Informatics Institute of Technology, Sri Lanka · Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

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

    Jun 28, 2026Aditya Pratap SinghVLM EvaluationVLM Robustness

  26. Character Recognition of Nepali Number Plate

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

    Pulchowk Campus, Institute of Engineering, Lalitpur, Nepal1

  27. EpiSAM: Character Segmentation in Challenging Stone Inscriptions

    Jun 27, 2026Arnav Sharma, Pratyush Jena, Amal Joseph +1Promptable Image SegmentationBoundary-Aware Segmentation

    Center for Visual Information Technology, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, Gachibowli, Hyderabad, Telangana 500032, India

  28. Joint Transcription and Decryption of Images of Encrypted Handwritten Documents: A Comparison with the Traditional Pipeline

    Jun 26, 2026Marino Oliveros-Blanco, Lei Kang, Alicia Fornés +1Optical Character RecognitionDocument Image Understanding

    Computer Vision Center Department of Computer Science Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona, Spain · Department of Linguistics Stockholm University, Sweden

  29. Learning Diachronic Representations of Ancient Greek Letterforms

    Jun 23, 2026John Pavlopoulos, Spyros Barbakos, Lavinia Ferretti +7Representation LearningVisual Representation Learning

    Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece · Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece · Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden +5

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

    Jun 23, 2026Sachin Sharma, Michele Flammini, Federico SimonettaFine-TuningVLM Adaptation

    GSSI – Gran Sasso Science Institute L’Aquila, Italy