1. TC-11 Report ICDAR’2001 L.Schomaker

2. Overview Intro TC-11 title Web site TC-11 list International Unipen Foundation (iUF)

3. Introduction prof. dr. Lambert Schomaker Background: On-line handwriting recognition, image search AI Institute Groningen University 9712 TS Groningen The Netherlands schomaker@ai.rug.nl

4. TC-11 Title “Applications in text processing” was slightly outdated ambiguous A discussion was started (end 2000) New title: Reading Systems

5. “Reading Systems”… Captures the essence of our research Does not conflict with the research field which is covered by TC-10 Discussion arguments on web site

6. The design of Reading Systems, keeping a balance between engineering and theory

7. Web site http://www.ai.rug.nl/iapr/tc-11www.ai.rug.nl/iapr/tc-11 Accessible from http://www.iapr.orgwww.iapr.org Refurbished Conference agenda Software tools ‘Research areas’ taxonomy

8. Conferences IWFHR’7 Amsterdam IWFHR’8 Niagara on the Lake IGS’2001 Nijmegen DAS’02 Princeton IGS’2003 Tempe,US ICDAR’2003 Edinburgh

9. TC-11 List Being TC-11 member means: Being on the email list Currently implemented with “Majordomo” under Linux

10. TC-11 List, Majordomo instructions Please send an email containing a single line with a command to majordomo@ai.rug.nl Command: Explanation: help (information on majordomo is emailed) subscribe tc-11 (request to become a tc-11 member) unsubscribe tc-11 (to give up your membership)

11. International Unipen Foundation (iUF) activities: Mainly for ‘on-line handwriting’ CDROM with Unipen database Proceedings book 7 th IWFHR (limited) Unix software tools for the Unipen format Consultancy to InkXML group, a consortium of companies working on ‘ink’ as a media type in MPEG7

12. International Unipen Foundation Advisory Board Réjean Plamondon Jean-Claude Simon † President & vice-president Lambert Schomaker Isabelle Guyon Treasurer Louis Vuurpijl

13. International Unipen Foundation Advisory Board Réjean Plamondon Guy Lorette President & vice-president Lambert Schomaker Isabelle Guyon Treasurer Louis Vuurpijl unipen.org

14. TC-11, go4it! Thank you for your attention! “…there are centripetal forces keeping the field of TC-11 together, based on the notion that its research involves the pattern recognition of characters: on paper, on hand-held devices, and on heterogeneous image sources such as photographs, WWW images and video.”