CONF vin03art/IDIAP Offline Recognition of Large Vocabulary Cursive Handwritten Text Vinciarelli, Alessandro Bengio, Samy Bunke, Horst EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2003/rr03-01.pdf PUBLIC http://publications.idiap.ch/index.php/publications/showcite/vin03 Related documents Proceedings of International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) ii 1101-1104 2003 IDIAP-RR 03-01 This paper presents a system for the offline recognition of cursive handwritten lines of text. The system is based on continuous density HMMs and Statistical Language Models. The system recognizes data produced by a single writer. No a-priori knowledge is used about the content of the text to be recognized. Changes in the experimental setup with respect to the recognition of single words are highlighted. The results show a recognition rate of 85% with a lexicon containing 50'000 words. The experiments were performed over a publicly available database. REPORT vin03/IDIAP Offline Recognition of Large Vocabulary Cursive Handwritten Text Vinciarelli, Alessandro Bengio, Samy Bunke, Horst EXTERNAL http://publications.idiap.ch/attachments/reports/2003/rr03-01.pdf PUBLIC Idiap-RR-01-2003 2003 IDIAP Proceedings of International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR) This paper presents a system for the offline recognition of cursive handwritten lines of text. The system is based on continuous density HMMs and Statistical Language Models. The system recognizes data produced by a single writer. No a-priori knowledge is used about the content of the text to be recognized. Changes in the experimental setup with respect to the recognition of single words are highlighted. The results show a recognition rate of 85% with a lexicon containing 50'000 words. The experiments were performed over a publicly available database.