Communications in Computer and Information Science

1.    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Document Analysis and Recognition, DAR 2018, held in Conjunction with ICVGIP 2018, in Hyderabad, India, in December 2018. The 12 revised full papers and 2 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections: document layout analysis and understanding; handwriting recognition and symbol spotting; character and word segmentation; handwriting analysis; datasets and performance evaluation.