A Study of Techniques and Challenges in Text Recognition Systems

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Published: Sep 20, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v11i8.8008
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Text Recognition System, OCR, NLP, Typewritten Text, Gurmukhi language

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Gurvir Kaur
Department of Computer Science, Punjabi university, Patiala, India
Ajit Kumar
Department of Computer Science Multani Mal Modi College Patiala, India

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The core system for Natural Language Processing (NLP) and digitalization is Text Recognition. These systems are critical in bridging the gaps in digitization produced by non-editable documents, as well as contributing to finance, health care, machine translation, digital libraries, and a variety of other fields. In addition, as a result of the pandemic, the amount of digital information in the education sector has increased, necessitating the deployment of text recognition systems to deal with it. Text Recognition systems worked on three different categories of text: (a) Machine Printed, (b) Offline Handwritten, and (c) Online Handwritten Texts. The major goal of this research is to examine the process of typewritten text recognition systems. The availability of historical documents and other traditional materials in many types of texts is another major challenge for convergence. Despite the fact that this research examines a variety of languages, the Gurmukhi language receives the most focus. This paper shows an analysis of all prior text recognition algorithms for the Gurmukhi language. In addition, work on degraded texts in various languages is evaluated based on accuracy and F-measure.

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Kaur, G. ., & Kumar, A. . (2023). A Study of Techniques and Challenges in Text Recognition Systems. International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication, 11(8), 342–356. https://doi.org/10.17762/ijritcc.v11i8.8008
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