Along with the explosive growth of the amount of handwritten documents that are preserved,
processed and accessed in a digital form, handwritten document images word spotting has …

Word spotting in handwritten document images is a field of immense interest due to its
widespread applications. Recognition-free and recognition-based approaches are the two …

Large quantities of scanned handwritten and printed documents are rapidly being made
available for use by information storage and retrieval systems, such as for use by libraries …

Word spotting strategies employed in historical handwritten documents face many
challenges due to variation in the writing style and intense degradation. In this paper, a new …

Word spotting is a content-based retrieval process that obtains a ranked list of word image
candidates similar to the query word in digital document images. In this paper, we present a …

Vast collections of documents available in image format need to be indexed for information
retrieval purposes. In this framework, word spotting is an alternative solution to optical …

Many word spotting strategies for the modern documents are not directly applicable to
historical handwritten documents due to writing styles variety and intense degradation. In …

Given a set of handwritten documents, a common goal is to search for a relevant subset.
Attempting to find a query word or image in such a set of documents is called word spotting …

This paper describes a method for script independent word spotting in multilingual
handwritten and machine printed documents. The system accepts a query in the form of text …

In this paper we propose an approach for word spotting in handwritten document images.
We state the problem from a focused retrieval perspective, ie locating instances of a query …