Optical Text Recognition in Nepali and Bengali: A Transformer-based Approach

arXiv:2404.02375v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Efforts on the research and development of OCR systems for Low-Resource Languages are relatively new. Low-resource languages have little training data available for training Machine Translation systems or other systems. Even though a vast amount of text has been digitized and made available on the internet the text is still in PDF and Image format, which are not instantly accessible. This paper discusses text recognition for two scripts: Bengali and Nepali; there are about 300 …

abstract arxiv cs.cl data development languages low machine machine translation ocr optical recognition research research and development systems text training training data transformer translation type vast