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Recent advances in the information technology made possible to introduce many Unicode Telugu fonts for the documentation needs of present society. But the recognition of documents printed in a variety of fonts poses new challenges in building Telugu OCR systems. In this paper, we demonstrate multi-font Telugu printed word recognition using implicit segmentation approach that provides segmentation as a by-product of recognition. Our word recognition approach relies on Hidden Markov Models and akshara bi-gram language model to recognize word images in terms of aksharas (characters). The training set of word images is prepared from document images of popular books and the synthetic document images generated using 8 different Unicode fonts. The testing involves matching the feature vector sequence against sequence of akshara HMMs based on bi-grams. The CER and WER of this system are 21% and 37% respectively. The performance of our system is very encouraging.
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Devarapalli, K.R., Negi, A. (2017). Multi-font Telugu Text Recognition Using Hidden Markov Models and Akshara Bi-grams. In: Mukherjee, S., et al. Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing. ICVGIP 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10481. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68124-5_21
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