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This chapter provides a review of the history of written language, with emphasis on the origins and evolution of characteristics which have been found to affect – and in some cases continue to challenge – the automated recognition and processing of document images.
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Baird, P.H.S. (2014). A Brief History of Documents and Writing Systems. In: Doermann, D., Tombre, K. (eds) Handbook of Document Image Processing and Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-85729-859-1_2
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