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Combining Multi-Scale Character Recognition and Linguistic Knowledge for Natural Scene Text OCR

Khaoula Elagouni
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Franck Mamalet
Pascale Sébillot

Abstract

Understanding text captured in real-world scenes is a challenging problem in the field of visual pattern recognition and continues to generate a significant interest in the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) community. This paper proposes a novel method to recognize scene texts avoiding the conventional character segmentation step. The idea is to scan the text image with multi-scale windows and apply a robust recognition model, relying on a neural classification approach, to every window in order to recognize valid characters and identify non valid ones. Recognition results are represented as a graph model in order to determine the best sequence of characters. Some linguistic knowledge is also incorporated to remove errors due to recognition confusions. The designed method is evaluated on the ICDAR 2003 database of scene text images and outperforms state-of-the-art approaches.
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hal-00753908 , version 1 (19-11-2012)

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Khaoula Elagouni, Christophe Garcia, Franck Mamalet, Pascale Sébillot. Combining Multi-Scale Character Recognition and Linguistic Knowledge for Natural Scene Text OCR. 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS, Mar 2012, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. pp.120-124. ⟨hal-00753908⟩
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