摘要: The transcription of written text images is one the most challenging tasks in document analysis since it has to cope with variability and ambiguity encountered handwritten data. Only a very restricted setting, as postal addresses or bank checks, works well enough for commercial applications. In case unconstrained modern text, recent advances have pushed field towards becoming interesting practical For historic data, however, recognition accuracies are still far too low automatic systems. Instead, efforts aim at interactive solutions which computer merely assists an expert creating transcription. this chapter, overview given steps along processing chain from line image final output explained, starting normalization feature representation. Two approaches, based on hidden Markov models neural networks, introduced more detail. Finally, databases software toolkits presented, hints further material provided.