This paper describes an offline handwriting recognition system for Amharic words based on lexicon. The system computes direction fields of scanned handwritten documents, from whic...
—For historical documents, available transcriptions typically are inaccurate when compared with the scanned document images. Not only the position of the words and sentences are ...
In this paper, we present a novel approach for incorporating structural information into the hidden Markov Modeling (HMM) framework for offline handwriting recognition. Traditiona...
Edit distance matching has been used in literature for word spotting with characters taken as primitives. The recognition rate however, is limited by the segmentation inconsistenci...
Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in Digital Libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collectio...