Paleography experts spend many hours transcribing historic documents, and state-of-the-art handwritten text recognition systems are not suitable for performing this task automatica...
We describe our work on text-image alignment in context of building a historical document retrieval system.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 propose a new strategy for combining the outputs of several alignment systems. Based on the word boundaries retrieved from a number of individual alignment system...
Huge amounts of legacy documents are being published by on-line digital libraries world wide. However, for these raw digital images to be really useful, they need to be transcribe...
—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...