Paper Abstracts
Benchmarking German and English OCR Systems
Stefan AGNE

Methods of Market Research, Especially for Multi-lingual OCR
Tim CALLAN

On Multi-script OCR System Evaluation
B. B. CHAUDHURI

Collaborative Collection of Large Datasets
David S. DOERMANN

Distributed Evaluation For Multi-lingual OCR Algorithms:
Problem Analysis and User Desiderata
Andy DOWNTON

Experimental Protocol For Document Image Algorithm Evaluation
Robert M. HARALICK

Performance Promise of Adaptive OCR Strategies
in a Multi-lingual Environment
Tin Kam HO and George NAGY

OCR Readiness for Army Tasks: Needs for an Evaluative Framework
Melissa HOLLAND and Jeff DeHART

OCR Activity for Handwritten Manuscripts in Devanagari Script
Prof. R. K. JOSHI

Evaluation and Improvement of OCR Performance for Japanese-English Mixed Text
Masahiko HATA, Tetsushi WAKABAYASHI, Fumitaka KIMURA, and Yasuji MIYAKE

Classification and Identification of Multi-lingual Documents
Jie DING, Louisa LAM, and Ching SUEN

MULE: Multi-lingual Features of the Latest GNU Emacsen
Tomohiko MORIOKA, Mikiko NISHIKIMI, Naoto TAKAHASHI,
Ken'ichi HANDA, and Satoru TOMURA

A Survey of Indian Script OCR Systems
Pankaj DOKE, Rinki GUPTA, Vidyesh NABAR

Title:Offline Printed Kannada Script Recognition System
Authors: Atul NEGI, B. Phani KUMAR, B.K. TRINADH

Data Requirements for Inference of Iconic and Linguistic Models
Henry S. BAIRD and Kris POPAT

Multilingual OCR Activities and Interest at ScanSoft
Yang HE and Ben WITTNER

Multilingual Document Images and Corpora
A. Lawrence SPITZ

Multi-lingual Features of the FineReader OCR Program
Vadim TERESCHENKO

Testing and Evaluation of Real-Time Address Recognition Systems
Alfred LAWSON, Srirangaraj SETLUR and Venu GOVINDARAJU