In this paper, we present a segmentation methodology of handwritten documents in their
distinct entities, namely, text lines and words. Text line segmentation is achieved by applying …

The Ottoman script, which was in use for over five centuries, is an Arabic alphabet-based
writing system. It became obsolete after the change of alphabet in Turkey. There are plenty …

As large quantity of document images is getting archived by the digital libraries, there is a
need for an efficient search strategies to make them available as per users information need …

This paper presents a digital image dataset of historical handwritten birth records stored in
the archives of several parishes across Sweden, together with the corresponding metadata …

Text line segmentation (TLS) is an essential step of the end-to-end document analysis
systems. The main purpose of this step is to extract the individual text lines of any …

Large archives of Ottoman documents are challenging to many historians all over the world.
However, these archives remain inaccessible since manual transcription of such a huge …

Technologies for reading and searching digital documents have helped academic
researchers; however, truly effective search engines for handwritten documents have not …

This paper presents an efficient indexing and retrieval scheme for searching in document
image databases. In many non-European languages, optical character recognizers are not …

A new methodology for Arabic handwritten document images segmentation is done in this
paper to segment the documents into distinct entities as words and text lines. Based on …

In this study, we propose a new method for retrieving and recognizing words in historical
documents. We represent word images with a set of line segments. Then we provide a …