Huge amounts of legacy documents are being published by on-line digital libraries world wide. However, for these raw digital images to be really useful, they need to be transcribe...
Handwritten document images contain textlines with multi orientations, touching and overlapping characters within consecutive textlines, and small inter-line spacing making textli...
Syed Saqib Bukhari, Faisal Shafait, Thomas M. Breu...
Most offline handwriting recognition approaches proceed by segmenting words into smaller pieces (usually characters) which are recognized separately. The recognition result of a w...
Word segmentation is a crucial step for segmentation-free document analysis systems and is used for creating an index based on word matching. In this paper, we propose a novel met...
—In this paper, we present a segmentation-free word spotting method that is able to deal with heterogeneous document image collections. We propose a patch-based framework where p...