The ESPOSALLES database: An ancient marriage license corpus for off-line handwriting recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1658-1669

  Romero, Verónica ^a   Fornés, Alicia ^b   Serrano, Nicolás ^a   Sánchez, Joan Andreu ^a   Toselli, Alejandro H ^a   Frinken, Volkmar ^b   Vidal, Enrique ^a   Lladós, Josep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

BLSTM; Handwritten text recognition; Hidden Markov models; Marriage register books; Neural networks

Indexed keywords

20TH CENTURY; AUTOMATIC PROCESSING; BLSTM; DAILY ACTIVITY; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN TEXT RECOGNITION; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; HISTORICAL RECORDS; MARRIAGE REGISTER BOOKS; OFFLINE HANDWRITING RECOGNITION;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; HISTORY; NEURAL NETWORKS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84873137185     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2012.11.024     Document Type: Article

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