Handbook of Character Recognition and Document Image Analysis

Arabic character recognition, A. Amin automatic reading of braille documents, A. Antonacopoulos techniques for improving OCR results, A. Dengel offline handwritten word recognition using hidden Markov models, A. Kundu combinations of multiple classifier decisions for OCR, L. Lam and C.Y. Suen classification techniques - statistical pattern recognition, neural networks and their relations, J. Schurmann cursive handwriting recognition - contextual and context - free techniques, M. Shridhar and Kimura multilingual document recognition, L. Spitz information retrieval and OCR, K. Taghva technical drawing analysis - including vectorization, D. Dori and K. Tombre reading of music notation, N. Carter and D. Bainbridge benchmarking, T. Nartker et al automatic signature verification, S. Impedovo. (Part Contents).