Systems and methods for end-to-end handwritten text recognition using neural networks

Abstract

The present disclosure provides systems and methods for end-to-end handwritten text recognition using neural networks. Most existing hybrid architectures involve high memory consumption and large number of computations to convert an offline handwritten text into a machine readable text with respective variations in conversion accuracy. The method combine a deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) with a RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) based encoder unit and decoder unit to map a handwritten text image to a sequence of characters corresponding to text present in the scanned handwritten text input image. The deep CNN is used to extract features from handwritten text image whereas the RNN based encoder unit and decoder unit is used to generate converted text as a set of characters. The disclosed method requires less memory consumption and less number of computations with better conversion accuracy over the existing hybrid architectures.