Improving OCR for Historical Texts of Multiple Languages
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| author | Westerdijk, Hylke Blankenborg, Ben Islam, Khondoker Ittehadul |
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| contents | This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, we enhanced our dataset through extensive data augmentation and employed the Kraken and TrOCR models to improve character recognition. In our analysis of 16th to 18th-century meeting resolutions task, we utilized a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) that integrated DeepLabV3+ for semantic segmentation with a Bidirectional LSTM, incorporating confidence-based pseudolabeling to refine our model. Finally, for modern English handwriting recognition task, we applied a CRNN with a ResNet34 encoder, trained using the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss function to effectively capture sequential dependencies. This report offers valuable insights and suggests potential directions for future research. |
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| spellingShingle | Improving OCR for Historical Texts of Multiple Languages Westerdijk, Hylke Blankenborg, Ben Islam, Khondoker Ittehadul Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computation and Language This paper presents our methodology and findings from three tasks across Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Document Layout Analysis using advanced deep learning techniques. First, for the historical Hebrew fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls, we enhanced our dataset through extensive data augmentation and employed the Kraken and TrOCR models to improve character recognition. In our analysis of 16th to 18th-century meeting resolutions task, we utilized a Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (CRNN) that integrated DeepLabV3+ for semantic segmentation with a Bidirectional LSTM, incorporating confidence-based pseudolabeling to refine our model. Finally, for modern English handwriting recognition task, we applied a CRNN with a ResNet34 encoder, trained using the Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) loss function to effectively capture sequential dependencies. This report offers valuable insights and suggests potential directions for future research. |
| title | Improving OCR for Historical Texts of Multiple Languages |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10356 |