Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR), 2011 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1350-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1520-5363
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.2011.113
