This paper reviews the state of the art in off-line Roman cursive handwriting recognition. The
input provided to an off-line handwriting recognition system is an image of a digit, a word, or …

In this paper we are presenting a new database with handwritten Arabic town/village names.
For each name the ground truth information, eg the sequence of character shapes, some …

As the number of digitized historical documents has increased rapidly during the last a few
decades, it is necessary to provide efficient methods of information retrieval and knowledge …

The theoretical framework and algorithms of a novel method for the generation of synthetic
on-line signatures are presented. This model-based approach combines the spectral …

Baseline information has been used for diverse purposes in handwriting research. The
baseline represents a first orientation in a word and it is often a precondition for subsequent …

Convolutional Neural Networks have made their mark in various fields of computer vision in
recent years. They have achieved state-of-the-art performance in the field of document …

The Ottoman script, which was in use for over five centuries, is an Arabic alphabet-based
writing system. It became obsolete after the change of alphabet in Turkey. There are plenty …

Databases enclosing a huge amount of images of handwritten words together with detailed
ground truth information are the most important precondition for the development of …

Synthetic data generation for optical character recognition (OCR) promises unlimited
training data at zero annotation cost. With enough fonts and seed text, we should be able to …

Handwriting synthesis is the automatic generation of data that resemble natural handwriting.
Although handwriting synthesis has recently gained increasing interest, the area still lacks a …