Handwriting has continued to persist as a means of communication and recording
information in day-to-day life even with the introduction of new technologies. Given its …

Online handwriting recognition is gaining renewed interest owing to the increase of pen
computing applications and new pen input devices. The recognition of Chinese characters is …

Research work on Arabic optical text recognition (AOTR), although lagging that of other
languages, is becoming more intensive than before and commercial systems for AOTR are …

Off-line recognition requires transferring the text under consideration into an image file. This
represents the only available solution to bring the printed materials to the electronic media …

A method for the off-line recognition of cursive handwriting based on hidden Markov models
(HMMs) is described. The features used in the HMMs are based on the arcs of skeleton …

This paper is the second part of a review series on the character segmentation techniques.
In this paper, we present an overview on the most important techniques used in segmenting …

In this paper, a wavelet-based off-line handwritten signature verification system is proposed.
The proposed system can automatically identify useful and common features which …

In this paper, principal component analysis (PCA) is applied to the problem of online
handwritten character recognition in the Tamil script. The input is a temporally ordered …

This paper compares the current state of the art in online Japanese character recognition
with techniques in western handwriting recognition. It discusses important developments in …

This work gives an overview of a new technology that is attracting growing interest in public
as well as in the computer industry itself. The visible difference from other technologies is in …