Contents:

• Intriguing Aspects of Oriental Languages (C Y Suen et al.)
• The Generation of Oriental Characters: New Perspectives for Automatic Handwriting Processing (R Plamondon et al.)
• A New Synthesizing Method for Handwriting Korean Scripts (D-H Lee & H-G Cho)
• Differentiating Between Oriental and European Scripts by Statistical Features (L Lam et al.)
• Gray-Scale Nonlinear Shape Normalization Method for Handwritten Oriental Character Recognition (S-Y Kim & S-W Lee)
• Distributed Autonomous Agents for Chinese Document Image Segmentation (J Liu & Y Y Tang)
• Ink Matching of Cursive Chinese Handwritten Annotations (D P Lopresti et al.)
• On-Line Handwritten Chinese Character Recognition Directed by Components with Dynamic Templates (X Xiao & R Dai)
• A Reliability Design Methodology for Chinese Character Recognition (Y S Huang et al.)
• Typeface Identification for Printed Chinese Characters (Y-H Tseng et al.)
• A Self-Organizing Hierarchical Classifier for Multi-Lingual Large-Set Oriental Character Recognition (H-S Park et al.)
• Printed Chinese Character Similarity Measurement Using Ring Projection and Distance Transform (P C Yuen et al.)
• Segmentation and Recognition of Continuous Handwriting Chinese Text (C Hong et al.)
• Network-Based Approach to Korean Handwriting Analysis (B-K Sin & J H Kim)
• Comparison of Feature Performance and Its Application to Feature Combination in Off-Line Handwritten Korean Alphabet Recognition (K Seo et al.)