Venu Govindaraju & Srirangaraj (Ranga) Setlur 
Guide to OCR for Indic Scripts [PDF ebook] 
Document Recognition and Retrieval

Section: Recognition of Indic scripts.- Building Data Sets for Indian Language OCR Research.- On OCR of Major Indian Scripts: Bangla and Devanagari.- A Complete Machine-Printed Gurmukhi OCR System.- Progress in Gujarati Document Processing and Character Recognition.- Design of a Bilingual Kannada–English OCR.- Recognition of Malayalam Documents.- A Complete OCR System for Tamil Magazine Documents.- Experiments on Urdu Text Recognition.- The BBN Byblos Hindi OCR System.- Generalization of Hindi OCR Using Adaptive Segmentation and Font Files.- Online Handwriting Recognition for Indic Scripts.- Section: Retrieval of Indic documents.- Enhancing Access to Primary Cultural Heritage Materials of India.- Digital Image Enhancement of Indic Historical Manuscripts.- GFG-Based Compression and Retrieval of Document Images in Indian Scripts.- Word Spotting for Indic Documents to Facilitate Retrieval.- Indian Language Information Retrieval.