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Much of the world's information in industry/office settings continues to be initially recorded in the form of handwritten documents. Examples include notes taken at meetings, lectures, and even medical records. One important drawback inherent to such handwritten notes is that th…

There is a huge collection of handwritten documents on the web. The retrieval of these handwritten documents requires transcribing and indexing these documents. Transcription is achieved by using a Handwritten Text Recognizer (HTR). In an unconstrained environment, the state of …

This thesis establishes a pattern recognition framework for offline word recognition systems. It focuses on the image level features because they greatly influence the recognition performance. In particular, we consider two complementary aspects of prominent features impact: lex…

While handwriting recognition tasks for Latin script based languages have received considerable attention, far less work has been done on the Arabic script. Arabic poses some unique challenges, such as a larger character set, the presence of dots and diacritics, and intra-word w…