Download or read book Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition written by David Scott Doermann and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Summit on Arabic and Chinese Handwriting Recognition, SACH 2006, held in College Park, USA, September 27-28, 2006. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of over 60 submissions. The first six papers deal directly with Arabic handwriting together with a short historic survey of the language and techniques used in recognition. Five papers present the current research in Chinese handwriting and three more papers deal with cross cutting methods applied to other languages. The book closes with two articles on recognition of English and south Indian handwriting.