Word Spotting in Cursive Handwritten Documents Using Modified Character Shape Codes

There is a large collection of Handwritten English paper documents of Historical and Scientific importance. But paper documents are not recognised directly by computer. Hence the closest way of indexing these documents is by storing their document digital image.

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