“…This requires character segmentation and linking each character image with a label, a pointer to its physical location in the original source material, and a reference to the relevant bibliographic data (author, title, date, etc.). The increased level of access will facilitate studies of the evolution of calligraphic styles and shapes, developing style-based taxonomies, and detecting duplicates, copies and forgeries [1,2,3,4,5]. Access to individual character images will also increase the usefulness of the database for further experiments on calligraphic document image processing.…”