Optical Character Recognition

Optical Character Recognition is a computational technique that enables the identification and conversion of printed or handwritten characters within digital images into machine-encoded text, thereby facilitating the digitization and analysis of historical and scholarly documents in the field of Digital Humanities.

9.3K

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468.2K

Citations

18.5K

Authors

3.4K

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Publications per year

2017–2026

2.6K

Variants

Ocr

Parents

Digital Humanities

Children

Arabic Script RecognitionCharacter ClassificationCharacter SegmentationChinese Character RecognitionConvolutional Neural NetworksDeep Learning OcrDegraded Document RecognitionDictionary-free RecognitionFraktur RecognitionHandwriting Recognition Evaluation

Publications

9.3K

Backpropagation Applied to Handwritten Zip Code Recognition

Yann LeCun, Bernhard E. Boser, J. S. Denker et al. · Neural Computation · 1989 · 11.9K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence +16

A training algorithm for optimal margin classifiers

Bernhard E. Boser, Isabelle Guyon, Vladimir Vapnik · 1992 · 11.6K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +16

The MNIST Database of Handwritten Digit Images for Machine Learning Research [Best of the Web]

Li Deng · IEEE Signal Processing Magazine · 2012 · 4.6K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence +13

Handwritten Digit Recognition with a Back-Propagation Network

Yann LeCun, Bernhard E. Boser, John S. Denker et al. · neural information processing systems · 1989 · 3.6K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +16

An introduction to kernel-based learning algorithms

K. Müller, Gunnar Rätsch, Koji Tsuda et al. · IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks · 2001 · 3.5K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Data Mining +13

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Authors

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Umapada Pal
Indian Statistical Institute, India
95 publications · 5.2K citations
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David Zhang
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR China
54 publications · 7.6K citations
36
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Basilis Gatos
National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos", Greece
66 publications · 4.4K citations
35
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Ching Y. Suen
Concordia University, Canada
87 publications · 6.4K citations
34
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Cheng‐Lin Liu
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
58 publications · 5K citations
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Pattern Recognition
589 publications · 48.9K citations
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IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
TPAMI · 137 publications · 27.9K citations
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Pattern Recognition Letters
265 publications · 14.4K citations
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International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)
180 publications · 10.7K citations
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arXiv (Cornell University)
Repository · 130 publications · 7.3K citations
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