The paper analytically reviews the methods and algorithms for solving problems arising in
the development of writer identification offline systems. The main applied problems that are …

In this paper we describe a database that consists of handwritten English sentences. It is
based on the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen (LOB) corpus. This corpus is a collection of texts that …

In image retrieval based on color, the weighted distance between color histograms of two
images, represented as a quadratic form, may be defined as a match measure. However …

In the last decade, the blossom of deep learning has witnessed the rapid development of
scene text recognition. However, the recognition of low-resolution scene text images …

The preservation and digitization of historical data are crucial for ensuring the continuity and
accessibility of information over successive generations. The present study investigates the …

We present a new database for off-line handwriting recognition, together with a few
preprocessing and text segmentation procedures. The database is based on the Lancaster …

In spite of the advances in recognition technology, handwritten Hangul recognition (HHR)
remains largely unsolved due to the presence of many confusing characters and excessive …

In this paper, we have described the preparation of a benchmark database for research on
off-line Optical Character Recognition (OCR) of document images of handwritten Bangla text …

A Chinese handwriting database named HIT-MW is presented to facilitate the offline
Chinese handwritten text recognition. Both the writers and the texts for handcopying are …

Developing a standard database for offline handwriting recognition is an essential task. This
paper offers a novel comprehensive database for conducting research on offline Persian …