Objective of the current work is to develop an Optical Character Recognition (OCR) engine for information Just In Time (iJIT) system that can be used for recognition of handwritten textual annotations of lower case Roman script. Tesseract open source OCR engine under Apache License 2.0 is used to develop user-specific handwriting recognition models, viz., the language sets, for the said system,...

This is the second paper in a series of two papers describing a novel approach for generalizing classical hidden Markov models using fuzzy measures and fuzzy integrals and their application to the problem of handwritten word recognition. This paper presents an application of the generalized hidden Markov models to handwritten word recognition. The system represents a word image as an ordered li...

Handwriting is considered to be one of the commonly used modality to identify persons in commercial, governmental and forensic applications. In order to record recent advances in the field of writer identification, we are proposing to organize the ICDAR2015 writer identification competition using KHATT, AHTID/MW and IBHC Databases. A first edition of the Arabic Writer Identification Competition...

This paper presents a survey of elastic matching (EM) techniques employed in handwritten character recognition. EM is often called deformable template, flexible matching, or nonlinear template matching, and defined as the optimization problem of two-dimensional warping (2DW) which specifies the pixel-to-pixel correspondence between two subjected character image patterns. The pattern distance ev...