Many museum and library archives are digitizing their large collections of handwritten historical manuscripts to enable public access to them. These collections are only available...
Most offline handwriting recognition approaches proceed by segmenting words into smaller pieces (usually characters) which are recognized separately. The recognition result of a w...
Large archives of Ottoman documents are challenging to many historians all over the world. However, these archives remain inaccessible since manual transcription of such a huge vo...
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...
This paper presents a segmentation-based handwriting recognizer and the performance that it achieves on the numerical fields extracted from a large single-writer historical collec...
Marius Bulacu, Axel Brink, Tijn van der Zant, Lamb...