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Construction of Handwriting Databases Using Transcript-based Mapping

  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • SUNY Buffalo

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Abstract

A recognition-based system was developed for constructing handwriting databases. The system automatically recognizes the word and the character images in handwritten document images by applying a transcript mapping algorithm. The transcript-mapping process is modeled as an optimization problem involving multiple word-segmentation hypotheses, word recognition and word alignment. The extensive experiments show that a large number of character and word images can be automatically extracted with very high reliability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries - DIAL 2004
Pages288-298
Number of pages11
StatePublished - 2004
EventProceedings First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries DIAL 2004 - Palo Alto, CA, United States
Duration: Jan 23 2004Jan 24 2004

Publication series

NameProceedings - First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries - DIAL 2004

Conference

ConferenceProceedings First International Workshop on Document Image Analysis for Libraries DIAL 2004
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPalo Alto, CA
Period01/23/0401/24/04

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