ICFHR 2014 Competition on Handwritten Digit String Recognition in Challenging Datasets (HDSRC 2014)

This paper presents the results of the HDSRC 2014 competition on handwritten digit string recognition in challenging datasets organized in conjunction with ICFHR 2014. The general objective of this competition is to identify, evaluate and compare recent developments in Western Arabic digit string recognition with varying length. In addition, this competition introduces two new challenging datasets for benchmarking. We describe competition details including the datasets and evaluation measures used, and give a comparative performance analysis of six (6) participating methods along with a short description of the respective methodologies.