Chapter 12: Lifelong Learning for Text Retrieval and Recognition in Historical Handwritten Document Collections

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Expectation Management

• Deep Learning

• The Ball-Park Principle

• Technical Realization

  • Work Flow

  • Quality and Quantity of Material

  • Industrialization and Scalability

  • Human Effort

  • Algorithms

  • Object of Recognition: Whole-Word Approaches

  • Processing Pipeline

• Performance

• Compositionality

• Conclusion

• References