text_combined: multilingual ocr optical character recognition first call participation international workshop performance evaluation issues multilingual ocr optical character recognition sunday september 19 1999 bangalore india icdar 99 int l conf document analysis recognition workshop chairs tapas kanungo university maryland college park md usa henry baird xerox parc palo alto ca usa organizing committee badr albadr king abdulaziz city saudi arabia torsten caesar siemens electrocom germany bhabatosh chanda isi calcutta india doug cooper southeast asian software research center thailand andreas dengel dfki germany steve dennis u government usa xiaoqing ding tsinghua university p r china david doermann university maryland usa michel gilloux service de recherche technique de la poste france robert haralick university washington usa tin kam ho bell laboratories lucent technologies usa donna harman national institute standards technology usa jonathan hull ricoh crc usa fumitaka kimura mie university japan hsi jian lee national chiao tung university r china seong whan lee korea university korea tomohiko morioka japan advanced institute science tech japan p mudur national center software technology india yasuaki nakano shinshu university japan kris popat xerox parc usa philip resnik university maryland usa lawrence spitz document recognition technologies usa rohini srihari cedar suny buffalo usa ching suen concordia university montreal canada yuan yan tang hong kong baptist university china vadim tereschenko abbyy software house russia jun tsukumo nec kanagawa japan toru wakahara ntt human interface laboratories japan technical focus workshop explore evaluation methodologies multilingual ocr systems multilingual mean include systems capable reading one language document well onelanguage perdocument systems easily retargeted new languages hope bring together researchers many countries discuss related questions methodologies used evaluate multilingual ocr systems compare accuracies across languages groundtruthed data sets available various languages kind datasets need collected achieved organizations might willing support effort multilingual ocr evaluation tools error visualization tools available developed ocr evaluation methods metrics useful ocr based machine translation crosslanguage information retrieval pressing open research problems promising dissertation topics etc workshop format oneday workshop maximum 70 participants participant submit extended abstract distributed workshop participants expected contribute discussions outset workshop three volunteers present brief informal summaries methodologies ii corpora iii tools mentioned submitted abstracts split three working groups focused topics proceed discuss key issues attempt resolve questions compile lists resources draw recommendations finally plenary session representatives group present recommendations invite general discussion several opportunities informal discussion socializing workshop organizing committee compile workshop summary based working group notes make available web hoped workshop stimulate cooperative followon activities accelerate pace research multilingual document image analysis extended abstract submission potential participant group participants submit extended abstract electronically via e mail plain ascii later march 30 1999 tapas kanungo center automation research university maryland college park md 20742 e mail mlocr cfar umd edu abstract include name address telephone fax email address author ordinarily limited six printed pages including references figures please longer submissions may admitted special cases e g catalogues resources accepted abstracts distributed workshop posted workshop website workshop website http www cfar umd edu kanungo workshop mlocr html