The increasing availability of high-performance, low-priced, portable digital imaging devices
has created a tremendous opportunity for supplementing traditional scanning for document …

Markov models are extremely useful as a general, widely applicable tool for many areas in
statistical pattern recognition. This unique text/reference places the formalism of Markov …

A comprehensive Arabic handwritten text database is an essential resource for Arabic
handwritten text recognition research. This is especially true due to the lack of such …

Since their first inception more than half a century ago, automatic reading systems have
evolved substantially, thereby showing impressive performance on machine-printed text …

This study aims at building an efficient word recognition system resulting from the
combination of three handwriting recognizers. The main component of this combined system …

Over the past few years, with the rapid adoption of broadband communication and advances
in multimedia content capture and delivery, Web-based meetings and lectures, also referred …

This paper offers an overview of the current approaches to research in the field of off-line
multilingual OCR. Typically, off-line OCR systems are designed for a particular script or …

In this paper, we report our comprehensive Arabic offline Handwritten Text database
(KHATT) after completion of the collection of 1000 handwritten forms written by 1000 writers …

This paper presents a word spotting method based on line-segmentation, sliding window,
continuous dynamic programming, and slit style HOG feature. Our method is applicable …

Lecture videos are a valuable resource for students, and thanks to online sources they have
become widely available. The ability to find videos based on their content could make them …