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Intelligent Character Recognition of Handwritten Forms with Deep Neural Networks

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arXiv:2606. 08858v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The automatic processing of handwritten forms remains a challenging task, wherein detection and subsequent classification of handwritten characters are essential steps.

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