OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Robust page object detection network for heterogeneous document images	32
Optimizing dotted Arabic expiration date recognition with ARABEX: a convolutional autoencoder with bidirectional LSTM and CRNN approach	22
Recent advances in text line segmentation and baseline detection in historical document images: a systematic review	21
A study of handwritten text recognition with cross-out words	21
Editorial for special issue on “advanced topics in document analysis and recognition”	19
Large-scale genealogical information extraction from handwritten Quebec parish records	17
SemiDocSeg: harnessing semi-supervised learning for document layout analysis	16
Hand-drawn cadastral map parsing, stitching and assembly via jigsaw puzzles	16
Cover-based multiple book genre recognition using an improved multimodal network	15
Scheme for palimpsests reconstruction using synthesized dataset	15
Difficulty-aware multi-scale feature pyramid network for transformer-based offline Chinese handwritten text line recognition	14
A survey on artificial intelligence-based approaches for personality analysis from handwritten documents	14
Special issue on advanced topics in document analysis (2026 ICDAR-IJDAR journal track)	13
Towards the digitization of Kurdish handwritten script using deep learning: a comprehensive analysis	13
Towards automatic efficient recognition of multiresolution offline handwritten Urdu text using swin transformers	11
Reviving medieval byzantine seals: a synthetic-to-real approach to character recognition	10
IndianPCL: A Dataset for Multimodal Legal Document Understanding	10
The PARES Database: Information Extraction over Historical Parish Records	10
A Graph-Augmented Multi-Stage Transformer Model for Document Layout Understanding	10
Perceptual cue-guided adaptive image downscaling for enhanced semantic segmentation on large document images	10
Automated systems for diagnosis of dysgraphia in children: a survey and novel framework	10
Neurosymbolic Information Extraction from Transactional Documents	10
Document image layout detection from scientific literature using combined ConvNext and cascade mask RCNN networks	9
Handwritten text line segmentation with TextSAM: An enhanced segment anything model via multi-module fusion	9
Unpaired document image denoising for OCR using BiLSTM enhanced CycleGAN	9

Adaptive dewarping of severely warped camera-captured document images based on document map generation	9
Historical document image analysis using controlled data for pre-training	9
Tableseq: unified generation of structure, content, and layout	8
LayoutGAT: layout-aware handwritten text recognition with graph attention networks	8
An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing	8
Children age group detection based on human–computer interaction and time series analysis	8
A novel holistic unconstrained handwritten urdu recognition system using convolutional neural networks	7
AIKON: a modular computer vision platform for historical corpora	7
Different strokes for different folks: writer identification for historical Arabic manuscripts	7
Few-Shot Quaternion-valued Correlation Squeeze Network for Document Image Layout Segmentation	7
Unsupervised document and template clustering using multimodal embeddings	7
Beyond Accuracy: Understanding Model Confidence in Key Information Extraction with Conformal Prediction	7
Tabular context-aware optical character recognition and tabular data reconstruction for historical records	7
Skeleton-guided artistic text recognition	7
Addressing the attention drift problem for khmer long textline recognition	7
DANIEL: a fast document attention network for information extraction and labelling of handwritten documents	7
Contour thinning for text detection in Mongolian handwritten historical documents	6
BPFormNet: a lightweight block pyramid network for form segmentation and classification	6
A Low-Intervention Dual-Loop Iterative Process for Efficient Dataset Expansion and Classification in Palm Leaf Manuscript Analysis	6
Human-in-the-loop tabular data extraction methods for historical climate data rescue	6
Efficient title text detection using multi-loss	6
Enhancing music score analysis with Monte Carlo dropout: a probabilistic approach to staff-region detection	6
Large language models for OCR in cultural heritage: a comparative study on Slovene Folkloristic texts	6
Exploring the effectiveness of data-centric AI approaches to developing a prescription recognition system	6
Newspaper elements detection and newspaper pages categorization using CNNs and transformers	6
Compactnet: a lightweight convolutional neural network for one-shot online signature verification	6
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition editorial leadership change	5
A brief review of state-of-the-art object detectors on benchmark document images datasets	5
Retrieval-based language model adaptation for handwritten Chinese text recognition	5
HQ-Font: Few-shot Font Generation via Transferring Hierarchical Quantization Styles	5
Exploring recursive neural networks for compact handwritten text recognition models	5
CHWmaster: mastering Chinese handwriting via sliding-window recurrent neural networks	5
Approximate ground truth generation for semantic labeling of historical documents with minimal human effort	5
A document is worth a structured record: Principled inductive bias design for document recognition	5
Subword recognition in historical Arabic manuscripts using handcrafted features and deep learning approaches	5
Parstr: partially autoregressive scene text recognition	4
Offline handwritten mathematical recognition using adversarial learning and transformers	4
TextTriangle: an end-to-end textspotter with piecewise linear alignment	4
Correction to: Exploring the effectiveness of data-centric AI approaches to developing a prescription recognition system	4
Generate, transform, and clean: the role of GANs and transformers in palm leaf manuscript generation and enhancement	4
HW-MLVQA: a novel handwritten multilingual dataset for visual question answering and evaluation	4
A holistic approach for image-to-graph: application to optical music recognition	4
Detecting and recognizing characters in Greek papyri with YOLOv8, DeiT and SimCLR	4
An adaptive multi-head self-attention coupled with attention filtered LSTM for advanced scene text recognition	4
Improving accuracy and explainability of online handwritten character recognition	4
Unsupervised approach to text line extraction in Belfort civil registers of births	4
Exemplar sampling algorithm for instance incremental learning on imbalanced document datasets	4
Experimental study of rehearsal-based incremental classification of document streams	4
Machine learning-based binarization technique of hand-drawn floor plans	3
Adversarial Optical Character Recognition to Protect Character Content: A Universal Adversarial Image Generation Scheme	3

PrecisionGAN: enhanced image-to-image translation for preserving structural integrity in skeletonized images	3
A multifaceted evaluation of representation of graphemes for practically effective Bangla OCR	3
From pixels to tables: reconstructing complex tables from document images	3
Analyzing the potential of active learning for document image classification	3
Attribute-based document image retrieval	3
Attention-based multiple siamese networks with primary representation guiding for offline signature verification	3
DR-SigAttack: distribution-relevant signature attack withstands defense mechanisms for offline signature verification	3
Bi-VLDoc: bidirectional vision-language modeling for visually-rich document understanding	3
Evaluating learned feature aggregators for writer retrieval	3
Towards reduced-complexity scene text recognition (RCSTR) through a novel salient feature selection	3
Multi-level Style Control for Chinese Handwriting Generation	3
Redacted text detection using neural image segmentation methods	3
Datasets and annotations for layout analysis of scientific articles	3
Chinese text recognition enhanced by glyph and character semantic information	3
Global and sequence-level information maximization for self-supervised scene text recognition	3
Image quality determination of palm leaf heritage documents using integrated discrete cosine transform features with vision transformer	2
A Comprehensive Survey of Floor Plan Image Analysis and Related Applications	2
BoundingDocs: a Unified Dataset for Document Question Answering with Spatial Annotations	2
Automatic floor plan analysis using a boundary attention-based deep network	2
International journal on document analysis and recognition editorial leadership change	2
Automatic uncertainty-aware synthetic data bootstrapping for historical map segmentation	2
Scrambled text: fine-tuning language models for OCR error correction using synthetic data	2
Special issue on advanced topics in document analysis (2025 ICDAR-IJDAR journal track)	2
Leveraging self-supervision and open-set detection for improving pattern spotting in historical documents	2
From pixels to strokes: A survey on generative handwriting	2
Printed Ottoman text recognition using synthetic data and data augmentation	2
Oracle character recognition using universal inverted bottleneck and inverse image frequency	2
Review of chart image detection and classification	2
DARE: A large-scale handwritten DAte REcognition system	2
Handwritten Text Recognition for Historical Latin Manuscripts via Model Adaptation and Synthetic Data Augmentation	2