Handwritten Text Retrieval Demonstration

This is a demonstration retrieval system which returns a ranked list of pages from 1000 handwritten page images in response to an ASCII query. Please read the instructions. Here is how the system works.

People involved in this work: Toni M. Rath, Victor Lavrenko and R. Manmatha

Other credits: J. Rothfeder

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Search in the George Washington collection:

Good queries to start with are provision and Washington. Then pick queries from pages you retrieved.

Query (one word only):