Authors: Animesh Prasad, Hervé Déjean, Jean-Luc Meunier, Max Weidemann, Johannes Michael, Gundram Leifert

Description: For this task we use a pipeline approach where first the line image is preprocessed and then passed through a CNN-BLSTM architecture with CTC loss (i.e. HTR). Then in next step, we use a BLSTM over the feature layer (computed as all character n-gram for the tokens generated from best effort decoding of HTR output) trained using cross entropy loss to maximize the accuracy.