Poster W78: Offline Handwriting Recognition with Multidimensional Recurrent Neural Networks
Alex Graves and Jurgen Schmidhuber ¨

We

use a hierarchy of multidimensional recurrent networks to transcribe images of handwritten Arabic text
The

system is very general, requires no preprocessing, and can be used for any alphabet or language
It

outperformed all entries in an international Arabic handwriting recognition competition (even though we don't know any Arabic!)