Title :
Machine Dating of Handwritten Manuscripts
Author :
Garain, Utpal ; Parui, S.K. ; Paquet, T. ; Heutte, L.
Author_Institution :
Indian Stat. Inst., Kolkata
Abstract :
This paper presents a pioneering study on automatic dating of handwritten manuscripts. Analysis of handwriting style forms the core of the dating method. Initially, it is hypothesized that a manuscript can be dated, to a certain level of accuracy, by looking at the way it is written. The hypothesis is then verified with real samples of known dates. A general framework is proposed for machine dating of handwritten manuscripts. Experiments on a database containing manuscripts of Gustave Flaubert (1821- 1880), the famous French novelist reports about 62% accuracy when manuscripts are dated within a range of five calendar years with respect to their exact year of writing.
Keywords :
document handling; information analysis; handwriting style forms; handwritten manuscript; machine dating; Calendars; Computer vision; Databases; Error analysis; Humans; Libraries; Pattern recognition; Testing; Watermarking; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 2007. ICDAR 2007. Ninth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Parana
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2822-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4377017
