In this paper we attempt to face common problems of handwritten documents such as nonparallel text lines in a page, hill and dale writing, slanted and connected characters. Towards this end an integrated system for document image preprocessing is presented. This system consists of the following modules: skew angle estimation and correction, line and word segmentation, slope and slant correction...

culture and folk beliefs are noticeably reflected in persian literature in general and in its poetry in particular. paying attention to such beliefs is sometimes useful while correcting a text and identifying a preferred record. on this basis, the present article examines two verses of sanai’s hadiqa al-haqiqa and offers the proposed correction. verses from other poets have been presented to fu...

The accuracy of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is crucial to the success of subsequent applications used in text analyzing pipeline. Recent models of OCR post-processing significantly improve the quality of OCR-generated text, but are still prone to suggest correction candidates from limited observations while insufficiently accounting for the characteristics of OCR errors. In this paper, ...

Computer-based aids for writing assistance have been around since at least the early 1980s, focussing primarily on aspects such as spelling, grammar and style. The potential audience for such tools is very large indeed, and this is a clear case where we might expect to see language processing applications having a significant real-world impact. However, existing comparative evaluations of appli...

In this paper we describe a very simple and efficient method for the détection and recognition of the Malayalam text from colour natural scene images taken by a mobile phone camera. Malayalam text detection, skew correction of the detected text ,text segmentation and character recognition are the important steps in text understanding from natural scene images. Text understanding in natural scen...

The decomposition of a document into segments such as text regions and graphics is a significant part of the document analysis process. The basic requirement for rating and improvement of page segmentation algorithms is systematic evaluation. The approaches known from the literature have the disadvantage that manually generated reference data (zoning ground truth) are needed for the evaluation ...

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The main challenge in an effort to build a realistic system with context-sensitive inference capabilities, beyond accuracy, is scalability. This paper studies this problem in the context of a learning-based approach to context sensitive text correction – the task of fixing spelling errors that result in valid words, such as substituting to for too, casual for causal, and so on. Research papers ...

With an average of 17 Chinese characters per phonetic syllable, correcting conversion errors with current phonetic input method editors (IMEs) is often painstaking and time consuming. We explore the application of spoken character description as a correction interface for Chinese text entry, in part motivated by the common practice of describing Chinese characters in names for self-introduction...