Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Multilingual OCR

It is our great pleasure to welcome all participants to the 2013 International Workshop on Multilingual OCR (MOCR 2013). This is the 4th edition of this series and emphasizes the importance of multilingual OCR in digitizing and making accessible for search and information retrieval, the enormous amounts of text material in multiple languages from across the world that is not born-digital. The scope of this field now extends into non-traditional documents such as scene images containing text captured by digital cameras as well as online recognition of finger or stylus based text input from touchscreen desktops, tablets and other mobile platforms. In keeping with the tradition of earlier editions of this Workshop, MOCR '13 is being held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2013) at Washington, DC USA on August 24, 2013. The Workshop is being organized as a single-track, one-day event with an all oral presentation format. All the papers underwent the standard peer review process and the acceptance rate was about 50%. The official workshop proceedings are being published in the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series, available online as part of the ACM Digital Library. Please note that any citations should reference the online proceedings and not the unofficial hardcopy proceedings distributed at the workshop.