Title
Combining Convolutional Neural Networks and LSTMs for Segmentation-Free OCR
Abstract
We present a novel end-to-end trainable OCR system combining a CNN for feature extraction with 1-D LSTMs for sequence modeling. We present results on English and Arabic handwriting data, and on English machine print data, showing state-of-the-art performance. We believe that our method is simpler than existing 2D LSTM models, and will make it easier to use techniques borrowed from CNN research in computer vision to improve OCR performance.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1109/ICDAR.2017.34
2017 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR)
Keywords
Field
DocType
OCR performance,convolutional neural networks,LSTMs,segmentation-free OCR,end-to-end trainable OCR system,feature extraction,sequence modeling,English machine print data,English handwriting data,Arabic handwriting data,computer vision
Arabic handwriting,Pattern recognition,Convolutional neural network,Segmentation,Computer science,Handwriting recognition,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Sequence modeling,Decoding methods,Hidden Markov model
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
01
1520-5363
978-1-5386-3587-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.36
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
stephen rawls1594.08
Huaigu Cao234729.09
Kumar, S.341.81
Premkumar Natarajan487479.46