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SPAN: a Simple Predict & Align Network for Handwritten Paragraph Recognition

2021-02-17 13:12:45
Denis Coquenet, Clément Chatelain, Thierry Paquet
arXiv_CV
               
Abstract

Unconstrained handwriting recognition is an essential task in document analysis. It is usually carried out in two steps. First, the document is segmented into text lines. Second, an Optical Character Recognition model is applied on these line images. We propose the Simple Predict & Align Network: an end-to-end recurrence-free Fully Convolutional Network performing OCR at paragraph level without any prior segmentation stage. The framework is as simple as the one used for the recognition of isolated lines and we achieve competitive results on three popular datasets: RIMES, IAM and READ 2016. The proposed model does not require any dataset adaptation, it can be trained from scratch, without segmentation labels, and it does not require line breaks in the transcription labels. Our code and trained model weights are available at this https URL.

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https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.08742

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https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.08742.pdf

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