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About theSpecial IssueEditors ErginaKavallieratou, Associate Professor. ErginaKavallieratouwas born inKefalonia, Greece, in 1973. ShereceivedherDiplomainElectricalandComputerEngineeringin1996fromthePolytechnic School of the University of Patras and her PhD in Handwritten Optical Character Recognition andDocument Image processing from the same department in 2000. She hasworked as a guest researcher in theDept. ofTelecommunicationsEngineeringof thePolytechnic School ofMadrid; in the InstituteofCommunicationAcousticsofRuhr-UniversitaetBochum,Germany; in theComputer Science&Engineering, LehighUniversity, USA; atCVC,UniversidaddeBarcelona; and at Institut Mines-Te´le´com/Te´le´comParisTech. During the years 2002–2004, shewas anAssistant Professor of AudioProcessing in theDept. ofAudio andMusical Instruments Technology in theTechnological Educational Instituteof Ionian Islands,Greece. She taught in theGreekOpenUniversity, 2001–2013. SinceSeptember2004, shehasbeenamemberof the teachingstaffof thedepartmentof Information and Communication System Engineering, University of the Aegean, and has been an Associate Professorsince2017.Herresearch interests includeOpticalCharacterRecognition,Document Image Analysis,ComputerVisionandPatternRecognition,andRobotics. Laurence Likforman-Sulem, Associate Professor, graduated in engineering from ENST-Bretagne (EcoleNationaleSuperieuredesTelecommunications) in1984andreceivedherPhDfromENST-Paris in 1989 andherHDR (Habilitation aDirigerdesRecherches) fromPierre&MarieCurieUniversity in 2008. She has been an Associate Professor at Telecom ParisTech in the IDS (Image Data Signal) Department since 1991, where she serves as a senior instructor in Pattern Recognition and handwriting recognition. Laurence Likforman-Sulem is an IEEE Senior Member and a founding memberof thefrancophoneGRCE(GroupedeRechercheenCommunicationEcrite).Shechairedthe programcommitteeofCIFEDheld inFribourg,Switzerland, in2006; theprogramcommitteesof two DRRConferences(DocumentRecognitionandRetrieval)heldin2009and2010inSanJose,California; andtheASAR(ArabicandDerivedScriptAnalysisandRecognition)workshopheldin2017inNancy, France. vii