: This paper describes a new approach to document classification based on visual features alone. Text-based retrieval systems perform poorly on noisy text. We have conducted serie...
Today's digital libraries increasingly include not only printed text but also scanned handwritten pages and other multimedia material. There are, however, few tools available...
In this paper, we propose an alternative method for accessing the content of Greek historical documents printed during the 17th and 18th centuries by searching words directly in d...
Anastasios L. Kesidis, Eleni Galiotou, Basilios Ga...
We describe our work on text-image alignment in context of building a historical document retrieval system. We aim at aligning images of words in handwritten lines with their text...
In this paper we present a novel shape descriptor based on shape context, which in combination with hierarchical distance based hashing is used for word and graphical pattern base...