Handwriting Recognition: Soft Computing and Probabilistic Approaches

Over the last few decades, research on handwriting recognition has made impressive progress. The research and development on handwritten word recognition are to a large degree motivated by many application areas, such as automated postal address and code reading, data acquisition in banks, text-voice conversion, security, etc. As the prices of scanners, computers and handwriting-input devices are falling steadily, we have seen an increased demand for handwriting recognition systems and soft...