A.  H.  Toselli,  M.  Pastor,  V.  Romero,  A.  Juan,  E.  Vidal,  and
F.  Casacuberta.   Off-line and  On-line  Continuous Handwritten  Text
Recognition  in PRHLT Group.   In F.  Pla, P.  Radeva, and  J. Vitrià,
editors, Pattern  Recognition: Progress, Directions  and Applications,
pages   146-161.  Centre   de  Visió   per  Computador,   2006.   ISBN
84-933652-6-2.

The main purpose of this  work is to provide a qualitative description
of  the   current  research   area  on  Continuous   Handwritten  Text
Recognition for  both off-line and  on-line cases, carried out  by the
Pattern Recognition and Human Language Technology (PRHLT) group of the
"Instituto  Tecnológico  de Informática".   A  general  overview of  a
handwriting  recognition  system  is  given,  focussing  specially  on
architectonic  scheme.  According  to  the  case  type  (off-line  and
on-line), different  preprocessing and feature  extraction methods are
briefly explained.  Also, a short description about  how the different
linguistic levels: morphological, lexical and syntactical are modelled
using  the  finite-state technology  is  dedicated.  Finally,  several
fully functional prototype applications of handwriting recognition are
presented.