In this paper, the authors proposed a Scale Space Co-occurrence Histograms of Oriented Gradients method (SS Co-HOG) for retrieving words from digitized handwritten documents. The poor performance of HOG based word spotting in handwritten documents is due to that HOG ignores spatial information...

This article presents examples of grassroots aid projects and programs that delivers results, within the framework of the Development Marketplace. It discusses the extent to which such community-based efforts can be replicated.

The purpose of this work is to introduce one of the most promising among recently developed statistical techniques – the support vector machine (SVM) – to corporate bankruptcy analysis. An SVM is implemented for analysing such predictors as financial ratios. A method of adapting it to...

Purpose – This paper aims to present an evaluation of open source OCR for supporting research on material in small‐ to medium‐scale historical archives. Design/methodology/approach – The approach was to develop a workflow engine to support the easy customisation of the OCR process...

While reading handwritten text accurately is a difficult task for computers, the conversion of handwritten papers into digital format is necessary for automatic processing. Since most bank checks are handwritten, the number of checks is very high, and manual processing involves significant...