We examine some research issues in pattern recognition and image processing that have been spurred by the needs of digital libraries. Broader – and not only linguistic – conte...
There is a growing need to access historical Ottoman documents stored in large archives and therefore managing tools for automatic searching, indexing and transcription of these d...
The content of image archives changes rapidly. This makes the traditional separation of ontology development and image annotation steps no longer feasible. In this paper, we presen...
This paper proposes a novel algorithm to clean up a large collection of historical handwritten documents kept in the National Archives of Singapore. Due to the seepage of ink over...
Degraded documents are frequently obtained in various situations. Examples of degraded document collections include historical document depositories, document obtained in legal an...