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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Recent advances in text line segmentation and baseline detection in historical document images: a systematic review	52
Robust page object detection network for heterogeneous document images	28
Optimizing dotted Arabic expiration date recognition with ARABEX: a convolutional autoencoder with bidirectional LSTM and CRNN approach	26
Editorial for special issue on “advanced topics in document analysis and recognition”	21
Hand-drawn cadastral map parsing, stitching and assembly via jigsaw puzzles	20
SemiDocSeg: harnessing semi-supervised learning for document layout analysis	20
Large-scale genealogical information extraction from handwritten Quebec parish records	17
Towards the digitization of Kurdish handwritten script using deep learning: a comprehensive analysis	16
Scheme for palimpsests reconstruction using synthesized dataset	15
Cover-based multiple book genre recognition using an improved multimodal network	14
Towards automatic efficient recognition of multiresolution offline handwritten Urdu text using swin transformers	14
A survey on artificial intelligence-based approaches for personality analysis from handwritten documents	14
Open writer identification from offline handwritten signatures by jointing the one-class symbolic data analysis classifier and feature-dissimilarities	13
Neurosymbolic Information Extraction from Transactional Documents	13
The PARES Database: Information Extraction over Historical Parish Records	12
A Graph-Augmented Multi-Stage Transformer Model for Document Layout Understanding	12
Automated systems for diagnosis of dysgraphia in children: a survey and novel framework	12
Perceptual cue-guided adaptive image downscaling for enhanced semantic segmentation on large document images	11
Handwritten text line segmentation with TextSAM: An enhanced segment anything model via multi-module fusion	10
Adaptive dewarping of severely warped camera-captured document images based on document map generation	10
Historical document image analysis using controlled data for pre-training	9
Document image layout detection from scientific literature using combined ConvNext and cascade mask RCNN networks	9
Children age group detection based on human–computer interaction and time series analysis	9
Unpaired document image denoising for OCR using BiLSTM enhanced CycleGAN	9
A novel holistic unconstrained handwritten urdu recognition system using convolutional neural networks	9

Addressing the attention drift problem for khmer long textline recognition	8
An end-to-end pipeline for historical censuses processing	8
Tabular context-aware optical character recognition and tabular data reconstruction for historical records	8
Beyond Accuracy: Understanding Model Confidence in Key Information Extraction with Conformal Prediction	8
Skeleton-guided artistic text recognition	8
Exploring the effectiveness of data-centric AI approaches to developing a prescription recognition system	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	7
Human-in-the-loop tabular data extraction methods for historical climate data rescue	7
Few-Shot Quaternion-valued Correlation Squeeze Network for Document Image Layout Segmentation	7
A survey of historical document image datasets	7
Exploring recursive neural networks for compact handwritten text recognition models	6
Compactnet: a lightweight convolutional neural network for one-shot online signature verification	6
A brief review of state-of-the-art object detectors on benchmark document images datasets	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
A Low-Intervention Dual-Loop Iterative Process for Efficient Dataset Expansion and Classification in Palm Leaf Manuscript Analysis	6
Newspaper elements detection and newspaper pages categorization using CNNs and transformers	6
BPFormNet: a lightweight block pyramid network for form segmentation and classification	6
Retrieval-based language model adaptation for handwritten Chinese text recognition	5
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition editorial leadership change	5
Improving accuracy and explainability of online handwritten character recognition	5
HW-MLVQA: a novel handwritten multilingual dataset for visual question answering and evaluation	5
CHWmaster: mastering Chinese handwriting via sliding-window recurrent neural networks	5
Subword recognition in historical Arabic manuscripts using handcrafted features and deep learning approaches	5
An adaptive multi-head self-attention coupled with attention filtered LSTM for advanced scene text recognition	4
From pixels to tables: reconstructing complex tables from document images	4
Chinese text recognition enhanced by glyph and character semantic information	4
Machine learning-based binarization technique of hand-drawn floor plans	4
Parstr: partially autoregressive scene text recognition	4
Offline handwritten mathematical recognition using adversarial learning and transformers	4
Correction to: Exploring the effectiveness of data-centric AI approaches to developing a prescription recognition system	4
Analyzing the potential of active learning for document image classification	4
Experimental study of rehearsal-based incremental classification of document streams	4
Bi-VLDoc: bidirectional vision-language modeling for visually-rich document understanding	4
Generate, transform, and clean: the role of GANs and transformers in palm leaf manuscript generation and enhancement	4
HQ-Font: Few-shot Font Generation via Transferring Hierarchical Quantization Styles	4
A holistic approach for image-to-graph: application to optical music recognition	4
TextTriangle: an end-to-end textspotter with piecewise linear alignment	4
Detecting and recognizing characters in Greek papyri with YOLOv8, DeiT and SimCLR	4
Global and sequence-level information maximization for self-supervised scene text recognition	4
Evaluating learned feature aggregators for writer retrieval	4
Approximate ground truth generation for semantic labeling of historical documents with minimal human effort	4
Exemplar sampling algorithm for instance incremental learning on imbalanced document datasets	4
Unsupervised approach to text line extraction in Belfort civil registers of births	4
Towards reduced-complexity scene text recognition (RCSTR) through a novel salient feature selection	3
PrecisionGAN: enhanced image-to-image translation for preserving structural integrity in skeletonized images	3
YOLO-table: disclosure document table detection with involution	3
Datasets and annotations for layout analysis of scientific articles	3
Scrambled text: fine-tuning language models for OCR error correction using synthetic data	3

Attribute-based document image retrieval	3
Attention-based multiple siamese networks with primary representation guiding for offline signature verification	3
Redacted text detection using neural image segmentation methods	3
Image quality determination of palm leaf heritage documents using integrated discrete cosine transform features with vision transformer	3
Printed Ottoman text recognition using synthetic data and data augmentation	3
Multi-level Style Control for Chinese Handwriting Generation	3
A multifaceted evaluation of representation of graphemes for practically effective Bangla OCR	3
DR-SigAttack: distribution-relevant signature attack withstands defense mechanisms for offline signature verification	3
Boosting modern and historical handwritten text recognition with deformable convolutions	3
DocXclassifier: towards a robust and interpretable deep neural network for document image classification	2
Table image dewarping with key element segmentation	2
Special issue on advanced topics in document analysis (2025 ICDAR-IJDAR journal track)	2
Review of chart image detection and classification	2
U-DIADS-TL: a novel dataset for text line segmentation in historical manuscripts	2
A benchmark image dataset of unconstrained isolated Assamese handwritten compound characters	2
Oracle character recognition using universal inverted bottleneck and inverse image frequency	2
Pho(SC)-CTC—a hybrid approach towards zero-shot word image recognition	2
BoundingDocs: a Unified Dataset for Document Question Answering with Spatial Annotations	2
International journal on document analysis and recognition editorial leadership change	2
VertexNet: a table structure recognition model based on key points for complex scenes	2
Inv3D: a high-resolution 3D invoice dataset for template-guided single-image document unwarping	2
A Comprehensive Survey of Floor Plan Image Analysis and Related Applications	2
Deep learning approaches for information extraction from visually rich documents: datasets, challenges and methods	2
Leveraging self-supervision and open-set detection for improving pattern spotting in historical documents	2
Automatic floor plan analysis using a boundary attention-based deep network	2
Open writer identification from handwritten text fragments using lite convolutional neural network	2