Word searching and indexing in historical document collections is a challenging problem because, characters in these documents are often touching or broken due to degradation/agei...
In this paper, we propose a novel segmentation-free approach for keyword search in historical typewritten documents combining image preprocessing, synthetic data creation, word sp...
Basilios Gatos, Thomas Konidaris, Kostas Ntzios, I...
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...
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...
There is a huge amount of historical documents in libraries and in various National Archives that have not been exploited electronically. Although automatic reading of complete pa...