PT Unknown
AU David Fernandez
   Jon Almazan
   Nuria Cirera
   Alicia Fornes
   Josep Llados
TI BH2M: the Barcelona Historical Handwritten Marriages database
BT 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition
PY 2014
BP 256
EP 261
DI 10.1109/ICPR.2014.53
AB This paper presents an image database of historical handwritten marriages records stored in the archives of Barcelona cathedral, and the corresponding meta-data addressed to evaluate the performance of document analysis algorithms. The contribution of this paper is twofold. First, it presents a complete ground truth which covers the whole pipeline of handwritingrecognition research, from layout analysis to recognition and understanding. Second, it is the first dataset in the emerging area of genealogical document analysis, where documents are manuscripts pseudo-structured with specific lexicons and the interest is beyond pure transcriptions but context dependent.
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