Handwritten Text Recognition for Marriage Register Books

Author

Romero, Verónica ; Sanchez, J.A. ; Serrano, Nicolás ; Vidal, Enrique

Author_Institution

Inst. Tecnol. de Inf., Univ. Politec. de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

fYear

2011

fDate

18-21 Sept. 2011

Firstpage

533

Lastpage

537

Abstract

Marriage register books are documents that were used for centuries by ecclesiastical institutions to register marriages. Most of these books were handwritten. These documents have interesting information, useful for demography studies. The information in these books is usually collected by expert demographers that devote a lot of time to transcribe them. The automatic transcription of these documents by using Handwritten Text Recognition techniques is difficult since the vocabulary is large, given that it is composed mainly of proper names. In this work, interactive Handwritten Text Recognition techniques were studied for the assisted transcription of these documents.

Keywords

demography; document handling; handwritten character recognition; optical character recognition; text analysis; vocabulary; assisted transcription; automatic transcription; demography studies; document handling; expert demographers; handwritten text recognition; marriage register books; vocabulary; Hidden Markov models; Humans; Indexes; Registers; Text recognition; Vectors; Vocabulary; assisted transcription; handwritten text recognition; interactive framework; marriage resgister books;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1520-5363

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1350-7

Electronic_ISBN

1520-5363

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2011.113

Filename

6065368