Character and handwriting recognition by computers is attracting much attention particularly because of its potential for application in many areas such as offi

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Indian Conference on Computer Vision, Graphics and Image Processing, ICVGIP 2006, held in Madurai, India,

For many years researchers in the field of Handwriting Recognition were considered to be working in an area of minor importance in Pattern Recog nition. They ha

Optical character recognition and document image analysis have become very important areas with a fast growing number of researchers in the field. This comprehe

Interest in the automatic processing and analysis of document images has been rapidly increasing during the past few years. This book addresses the different su