Introduction In the context of the Venice atlas project, automatic recognition of handwritten text is a crucial issue. And to achieve a good text recognition, a common approach involves the segmentation of the handwritten script into individual characters...

Introduction The goal of our project was to investigate the possible use of the RWTH OCR framework as a possible Optical Character Recognition system to use in the Venice Time Machine project. The RWTH OCR framework is a set of programs able to perform...

In this article, we investigate various techniques from the fields of shape analysis and image processing in order to construct a semi-automatic transcription tool for ancient manuscripts. First, we design a shape matching procedure  using shape contexts, a...