Record Counting in Historical Handwritten Documents with Convolutional   Neural Networks
  In this paper, we investigate the use of Convolutional Neural Networks for counting the number of records in historical handwritten documents. With this work we demonstrate that training the networks only with synthetic images allows us to perform a near perfect evaluation of the number of records printed on historical documents. The experiments have been performed on a benchmark dataset composed by marriage records and outperform previous results on this dataset. 
Samuele Capobianco, Simone Marinai
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