Ray Smith

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Ray Smith is a scholar working on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence and Archeology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ray Smith has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 5 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 3 papers in Archeology. Recurrent topics in Ray Smith's work include Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques (7 papers), Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (4 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 papers). Ray Smith is often cited by papers focused on Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques (7 papers), Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (4 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 papers). Ray Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States and Germany. Ray Smith's co-authors include Faisal Shafait, Dar-Shyang Lee, Ranjith Unnikrishnan, Donald B. Redford, Zongyi Liu, James W. Hooper and Geoffrey T. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, National geographic/˜The œcomplete National geographic/˜The œNational geographic magazine and UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA).

In The Last Decade

Ray Smith

12 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine
    2007 1.2k citations Ray Smith Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ray Smith United States 8 983 348 303 156 99 13 1.4k
Toqeer Mahmood Pakistan 24 1.1k 1.1× 384 1.1× 363 1.2× 137 0.9× 73 0.7× 66 1.6k
Shaohua Teng China 20 795 0.8× 551 1.6× 128 0.4× 179 1.1× 450 4.5× 130 1.7k
Marco La Cascia Italy 20 1.7k 1.7× 305 0.9× 180 0.6× 72 0.5× 201 2.0× 76 2.0k
Eran A. Edirisinghe United Kingdom 15 518 0.5× 189 0.5× 193 0.6× 88 0.6× 71 0.7× 110 894
Hong-Han Shuai Taiwan 21 745 0.8× 494 1.4× 53 0.2× 138 0.9× 125 1.3× 119 1.5k
Khalil Khan Pakistan 20 414 0.4× 272 0.8× 169 0.6× 107 0.7× 89 0.9× 66 1.1k
Mohammed Hazim Alkawaz Malaysia 18 526 0.5× 234 0.7× 132 0.4× 157 1.0× 79 0.8× 84 1.0k
Siliang Tang China 22 934 1.0× 705 2.0× 143 0.5× 108 0.7× 54 0.5× 122 1.6k
Xiaojie Wang China 21 1.0k 1.0× 1000 2.9× 110 0.4× 85 0.5× 58 0.6× 149 1.8k
Wei-Ta Chu Taiwan 22 1.3k 1.3× 383 1.1× 82 0.3× 132 0.8× 328 3.3× 141 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Ray Smith

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ray Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ray Smith

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ray Smith. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ray Smith based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Ray Smith. Ray Smith is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Smith, Ray. (2013). History of the Tesseract OCR engine: what worked and what didn't. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 8658. 865802–865802. 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Zongyi & Ray Smith. (2013). A Simple Equation Region Detector for Printed Document Images in Tesseract. 245–249. 4 indexed citations
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Lee, Dar-Shyang & Ray Smith. (2012). Improving Book OCR by Adaptive Language and Image Models. 115–119. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, Ray. (2011). Limits on the Application of Frequency-Based Language Models to OCR. 538–542. 26 indexed citations
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Shafait, Faisal & Ray Smith. (2010). Table detection in heterogeneous documents. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA). 65–72. 62 indexed citations
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Smith, Ray, et al.. (2009). Adapting the Tesseract open source OCR engine for multilingual OCR. 1–8. 75 indexed citations
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Unnikrishnan, Ranjith & Ray Smith. (2009). Combined Orientation and Script Detection using the Tesseract OCR Engine. 1 indexed citations
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Unnikrishnan, Ranjith & Ray Smith. (2009). Combined script and page orientation estimation using the Tesseract OCR engine. 1–7. 15 indexed citations
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Smith, Ray. (2007). An Overview of the Tesseract OCR Engine. Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition. 629–633. 1188 indexed citations breakdown →
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Smith, Ray & James W. Hooper. (1988). An architecture for textual information retrieval. 107–112. 1 indexed citations
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Martin, Geoffrey T., Ray Smith, & Donald B. Redford. (1983). The Akhenaten Temple Project. Vol. I: Initial Discoveries. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 69. 173–173.
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Smith, Ray & Donald B. Redford. (1976). The Akhenaten Temple Project. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 7 indexed citations
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Smith, Ray. (1970). Computer helps scholars re-create an egyptian temple. National geographic/˜The œcomplete National geographic/˜The œNational geographic magazine. 138(5). 634–655. 5 indexed citations

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