An interactive annotation tool for indexing Historical manuscripts

Abstract

When a huge collection of digitized old manuscripts are obtained as a part of their preservation, an appropriate indexing technique is essential to search through them. In this paper, we have proposed a novel tool to assist the indexing of offline handwritten historical documents. The annotation tool we have developed has a semi-automatic interface that can deal with possible errors in the text segmentation. We have given a full description and analysis of our tool which can be used for English as well as Arabic documents with different performance rates.