Contents:

• Image Processing Methods for Document Image Analysis (T M Ha & H Bunke)
• Pattern Classification Techniques Based on Function Approximation (U Kressel & J Schürmann)
• Combination of Multiple Classifier Decisions for Optical Character Recognition (L Lam et al.)
• Isolated Handprinted Digit Recognition (J Franke)
• Segmentation-Based Cursive Handwriting Recognition (M Shridhar & F Kimura)
• Handwritten Word Recognition Using Hidden Markov Model (A Kundu)
• Overview and Synthesis of On-Line Cursive Handwriting Recognition Techniques (I Guyon et al.)
• Techniques for Improving OCR Results (A Dengel et al.)
• Multilingual Document Recognition (A L Spitz)
• An OCR-Oriented Overview of Ideographic Writing Systems (J Kanai et al.)
• Machine Printed Chinese Character Recognition (X Q Ding)
• Chinese Character Recognition in Taiwan (H-J Lee)
• Research in Japanese OCR (S N Srihari et al.)
• Online Recognition of Korean Hangul Characters (J H Kima & B Sin)
• Arabic Character Recognition (A Amin)
• The Representation of Document Structure: A Generic Object-Process Analysis (D Dori et al.)
• Interpretation of Engineering Drawings (K Tombre & D Dori)
• Analysis of Printed Forms (K Niyogi et al.)
• Paper-Based Map Processing (H Yamada)
• Interpretation of Maps: From Bottom-Up to Model-Based (R D T Janssen)
• Recognition of Mathematical Notation (D Blostein & A Grabavec)
• Automatic Reading of Music Notation (D Bainbridge & N Carter)
• Algorithms for Automatic Signature Verification (G Dimauro et al.)
• Bank Check Analysis and Recognition by Computers (A Agarwal et al.)
• Information Extraction from Paper Documents (T Bayer et al.)
• Automatic Interpretation and Execution of Manual Corrections on Text Documents (D Mori & H Bunke)
• Automatic Reading of Braille Documents (A Antonacopoulos)
• DIA, OCR, and the WWW (G Nagy et al.)
• Information Retrieval and OCR (K Taghva et al.)
• Data Sets for OCR and Document Image Understanding Research (I Guyon et al.)
• Benchmarking DIA Systems (T Nartker)