The alignment of text line images with text transcript is a crucial step of handwritten document annotation. Handwritten text alignment is prone to errors due to the difficulty of...
We describe our work on text-image alignment in context of building a historical document retrieval system.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...
Annotating the regions, text lines and characters of document images is an important, but tedious and expensive task. A ground-truthing tool may largely alleviate the human burden...
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...
—Because of writing styles of different individuals, some of the text-lines may be curved in shape. For recognition of such text-lines, their proper alignment is necessary. In th...