The ImageCLEF 2016 Handwritten Scanned Document Retrieval Task was the first edition
of a challenge aimed at developing retrieval systems for handwritten documents. Several …

With the continuous growth of the World Wide Web, there is an urgent need for an efficient
information retrieval system which can search and retrieve handwritten documents when …

Searching handwritten documents is a relatively unexplored frontier for documents in any
language. Traditional approaches use either image-based or text-based techniques. This …

Recognition and retrieval of historical handwritten material is an unsolved problem. We
propose a novel approach to recognizing and retrieving handwritten manuscripts, based …

With the ever-increasing growth of the World Wide Web, there is an urgent need for an
efficient information retrieval system that can search and retrieve handwritten documents …

Writer retrieval has valuable applications in analyzing handwritten documents, such as the
verification of authenticity and authorship of unknown manuscripts. Writer retrieval systems …

The domain mismatch between queries (synthetic) and database images (handwritten)
leads to poor accuracy than printed documents. One of the solutions is to represent the …

We propose a method to perform text searches on handwritten word image databases when
no ground-truth data is available to learn models or select example queries. The approach …

The Pen Technologies group at IBM Research has recently been investigating methods for
retrieving handwritten documents based on user queries. This paper investigates the use of …

Recent technological advances have enhanced the computer-based indexing and
searching of digitised printed books. The performance now achievable in this domain …