Efficient Text Extraction Research Articles

Enhancing the Recognition of Handwritten Arabic Characters through Hybrid Convolutional and Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Network Models

Handwritten Arabic character recognition remains a challenging task in pattern recognition due to the inherent complexities of the cursive script and visual similarities between characters. While deep learning techniques have demonstrated promising results in this domain, further enhancements to the model architecture can drive even greater performance improvements. This study introduces a hybrid deep learning approach that combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with Bidirectional Recurrent Neural Networks, specifically Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) and Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units (Bi-GRU). By leveraging the strengths of both convolutional and recurrent neural network components, the proposed models are able to effectively capture spatial features as well as model the temporal dynamics and contextual relationships present in handwritten Arabic text. Experiments conducted on the AHCD and Hijjaa benchmark datasets show that the CNN-Bi-GRU framework achieved state-of-the-art accuracy rates of 97.05% and 91.78% respectively, outperforming previous deep learning-based methods. These results demonstrate the significant performance gains that can be achieved by integrating specialized temporal modeling and contextual representation capabilities into the handwriting recognition pipeline, without the need for explicit segmentation. The findings of this research represent a crucial advancement in the continued development of sophisticated and precise deep learning systems for Arabic handwriting recognition, with broad applications across domains that rely on efficient text extraction from handwritten documents.

Image Text Extraction and Natural Language Processing of Unstructured Data from Medical Reports

This study presents an integrated approach for automatically extracting and structuring information from medical reports, captured as scanned documents or photographs, through a combination of image recognition and natural language processing (NLP) techniques like named entity recognition (NER). The primary aim was to develop an adaptive model for efficient text extraction from medical report images. This involved utilizing a genetic algorithm (GA) to fine-tune optical character recognition (OCR) hyperparameters, ensuring maximal text extraction length, followed by NER processing to categorize the extracted information into required entities, adjusting parameters if entities were not correctly extracted based on manual annotations. Despite the diverse formats of medical report images in the dataset, all in Russian, this serves as a conceptual example of information extraction (IE) that can be easily extended to other languages.

A Method of Effective Text Extraction for Complex Video Scene

Text information contains important information for video analysis, indexing, and retrieval. Effective and efficient text extraction has been a challenging topic in recent years. Focusing on this issue, a text extraction method for complex video scene is proposed in this paper. Multiframe corner matching and heuristic rules are combined together to detect the text region candidates, which solves the issue of Harris corner filtration for complex video scene and also improves the detection accuracy using multiframe fusion. Local texture description is then used for similarity evaluation judged by SVM. Experimental results for 4 different types of 395-frame video images show the effectiveness of the proposed method compared with 5 existing text extraction methods.

Effective and efficient video text extraction using key text points

Text information contains important clues for video analysis, indexing and retrieval. Effective and efficient text extraction has been a challenging and significant topic. Focusing on this issue, this study proposes a video text extraction scheme using key text points (KTPs). A KTP is defined as the point that has strong textural structure in multi-directions simultaneously. First, a KTP can be acquired by the three high-frequency subbands obtained from the wavelet transform. An anti-texture-direction-projection method is then proposed to improve the accuracy of text localisation and verification. Second, the difference at the KTPs between neighbouring frames is calculated as the similarity measure in text tracking, which can reduce the influence of dramatic background variation. Finally, the total number of the KTPs in each connected component is calculated to remove the background interference and to extract texts for text segmentation. Experimental results show that the proposed text detection and localisation algorithm is robust to the font size, style, colour and alignment of texts. Text tracking significantly improves the efficiency of text detection, and the similarity measure based on KTPs decreases the influence of scene changes and motions. The proposed text segmentation has a promising performance when processing video scenes with complex backgrounds and low contrast between texts and backgrounds.

Hybrid approach to efficient text extraction in complex color images

Texture-based methods and connected component (CC) methods have been widely used for text localization. However, these two primary methods have their own strength and weakness. This paper proposes a hybrid approach of the two methods for text localization in complex images. An automatically constructed MLP-based texture classifier can increase the recall rates for complex images with much less user intervention and no explicit feature extraction. The CC-based filtering based on the geometry and shape information enhances the precision rates without affecting overall performance. Then, the time-consuming texture analysis for less relevant pixels is avoided by using CAMShift. Our experimentation shows that the proposed hybrid approach leads to not only robust but also efficient text localization.