Progress in Handwriting Recognition: Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition

Recent advances in the field of data acquisition technology and the promising results of the research, make possible the development of commercial systems for processing and recognition of handwritten documents. This book contains the results of the activity of academic and industrial research groups working in this area. The issues arising in the field are focused and involve both theoretical and practical aspects related to handwriting recognition and document processing systems. The contributions point out the more interesting challenges for the scientific community, ranging from acquisition and preprocessing of handwritten documents, to recognition of handwritten digits and words, to the design of multi-expert systems and the exploitation of the contextual knowledge to improve system performance.