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Within the International Association for Pattern Recognition, Technical Committee 11 is concerned with theory and application of Reading Systems. The goal is to understand and develop systems which are able to analyze media containing character symbols and will return an encoded representation of the text content and structure.
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'''IAPR TC11''' is the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee Number 11. IAPR TC11 is concerned with the theory and applications of Reading Systems. We seek to study and develop systems that recognize character content and structure in handwritten and typeset documents, images, and video.</p><br>
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'''Research Areas.''' IAPR's Technical Committee No. 11 (TC11) is concerned with work in document image processing, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), handwriting recognition, and more generally the analysis and recognition of information in documents. For a list of research areas of interest to TC11, please click [ [[Research Areas|here]] ]. These topics cover both recognition of printed texts as well as recognition of handwritten material, both off-line (from images) and on-line (from pen-and touch-based computing devices). Analysis of electronic documents such as web pages and PDF files is also of interest to TC11.  
  
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This area covers research in the off-line recognition of printed texts and handwritten material, research on the automatic on-line recognition of handwriting as in pen-computing applications, as well as research in the analysis of electronic documents such as web pages. Applications include digital libraries, pen-based computing, check and mail reading, signature verification, web mining and content repurposing, web security using human interactive proofs, textual content analysis in videos, and historical document preservation and archiving.
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These topics cover all levels of document processing, starting with image or planar coordinates obtained from sensors, through image and signal-processing stages, feature extraction and selection, and algorithms used to segment, classify and parse document contents. Commonly, these algorithms involve some form of statistical and/or syntactic pattern recognition, as well as machine learning techniques.
  
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The research topics cover all levels of processing, starting with the image or planar coordinates delivered by sensory technology, the necessary image and signal-processing stages, the subsequent segmentation and normalization stages, to feature extraction and selection, classification methods, statistical and syntactical pattern recognition and machine learning techniques.
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'''Reading System Applications.''' Applications include digital libraries, pen-based computing, check and mail reading, signature verification, web mining and content repurposing, web security using human interactive proofs, textual content analysis in videos, and historical document preservation and archiving.
  
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IAPR TC11 is the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) Technical Committee Number 11. IAPR TC11 is concerned with the theory and applications of Reading Systems. We seek to study and develop systems that recognize character content and structure in handwritten and typeset documents, images, and video.


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About TC11

Research Areas. IAPR's Technical Committee No. 11 (TC11) is concerned with work in document image processing, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), handwriting recognition, and more generally the analysis and recognition of information in documents. For a list of research areas of interest to TC11, please click [ here ]. These topics cover both recognition of printed texts as well as recognition of handwritten material, both off-line (from images) and on-line (from pen-and touch-based computing devices). Analysis of electronic documents such as web pages and PDF files is also of interest to TC11.

These topics cover all levels of document processing, starting with image or planar coordinates obtained from sensors, through image and signal-processing stages, feature extraction and selection, and algorithms used to segment, classify and parse document contents. Commonly, these algorithms involve some form of statistical and/or syntactic pattern recognition, as well as machine learning techniques.

Reading System Applications. Applications include digital libraries, pen-based computing, check and mail reading, signature verification, web mining and content repurposing, web security using human interactive proofs, textual content analysis in videos, and historical document preservation and archiving.

Logo. The current IAPR TC11 Logo was designed by Eloisa Alquati.

TC11 Officers

Chair Prof. Andreas Fischer
HES-SO and University of Fribourg, Switzerland
Vice-Chair Prof. Mickaël Coustaty
University of La Rochelle, France
Communications Dr. Nibal Nayef
MyScript, France
Dataset Curator Dr. Joseph Chazalon
EPITA, France
Education Officer Prof. Foteini Liwicki
Lulea University of Technology, Sweden
Past Chair Prof. Faisal Shafait
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Pakistan

Newsletters


TC11 newsletters are published once a month. The TC11 Newsletter Archive contains all newsletters released since 2000, along with some other information. To see the archive, click here.

In order to receive the IAPR TC11 newsletters, please join the TC11 mailing list. You can do so by filling in this form. The list is hosted at JISC (National Academic Mailing List Service). If you are already a member of this service, you can simply log in to your account, search for the mailing list ("iapt-tc11") and subscribe to it.

What's New?

2024

January 30 January newsletter
February 29 February newsletter
March 29 March newsletter
April 30 April newsletter
May 31 May newsletter
June 28 June newsletter
July 31 July newsletter
August 30 August newsletter
September 30 September newsletter
October 31 October newsletter

2023

January 30 January newsletter
February 28 February newsletter
March 31 March newsletter
April 30 April newsletter
May 31 May newsletter
June 30 June newsletter
July 31 July newsletter
August 30 August newsletter
September 29 September newsletter
October 31 October newsletter
November 30 November newsletter
December 22 December newsletter


Full history of "What's New?"



Activities

The TC11 of the IAPR has spawned a number of lively activities in the area of pattern recognition: a journal, three conference series, maintaining collections of data sets and software, numerous workshops, and a project for benchmarking on-line handwriting recognizers.

Journals

IJDAR book image
International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR)

Conferences and Workshops


There are two conferences and one workshop associated with TC11.

Winning bids to host conferences may be found below.

  • Click here to view the bid to host ICDAR 204 in Athene, Greece



Resources: Data, Software, etc.

TC11 maintains a collection of datasets and software packages, along with projects and forums available from the links below.

TC10/11 Summer School

TC10/11 Summer School

Part of the mission of TC11 is to promote high quality educational activities related to Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition. The "TC10/TC11 Summer School" is intended to become the prime educational activity of IAPR TC11 (Reading Systems) and TC10 (Graphics Recognition). The Summer School is meant to be a training activity where participants are exposed to the latest trends and techniques of Reading Systems and Graphics Recognition.

A call for bids to host the TC10 / TC11 Summer School is distributed by TC10 and TC11 about one year before the School should take place.

Any consortium interested in making a proposal to host the TC10/TC11 Summer School must proceed according to the Guidelines for Organising and Bidding to Host the TC10 / TC11 Summer School.

Reports and Discussion Groups

Reports

  • TC11 report September 2016 (docx, pdf)
  • TC11 Interim Report - July 2015 (pdf)
  • TC11 report November 2012 (docx, pdf)
- TC10 / TC11 Joint Meeting Slides on Nomember 14, 2012 (pptx, pdf)
- See also 2012 activity report of TC10.

DAS Discussion Groups

The group discussions are held at every DAS workshop. For more detail, click here.

Strategic Plan


Please visit the Web site dedicated to the Document Analysis and Recognition Strategy.


Last updated: 2024-10-30

This page is editable only by TC11 Officers.

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