A brief survey on the state on the art in on-line handwriting recognition for Japanese and western script

摘要

This paper presents a brief overview of the state of the art in Japanese character recognition and western handwriting recognition based on the Latin alphabet. It provides an overview of recent developments with a special emphasis on differences and similarities in both fields. Comparing eastern and western handwriting recognition techniques helps to learn from different approaches and to understand the underlying common foundations of handwriting recognition. This is very important when it comes to developing integrated systems capable of recognizing both writing systems simultaneously and dealing with multi-language documents.