Historical Document Processing -- A Few Shot Multi-Representation Approach for N-gram Spotting in Historical Manuscripts -- Text Edges Guided Network for Historical Document Super Resolution -- CurT: End-to-End Text Line Detection in Historical Documents with Transformers -- Date Recognition in Historical Parish Records -- Improving Isolated Glyph Classification Task for Palm leaf Manuscripts -- Signature Verification and Writer Identification -- Impact of Type of Convolution Operation on Performance of Convolutional Neural Networks for Online Signature Verification -- COMPOSV++: Light Weight Online Signature Verification Framework through Compound Feature Extraction and Few-shot Learning -- Finger-Touch Direction Feature Using a Frequency Distribution in the Writer Verification Base on Finger-Writing of a Simple Symbol -- Self-Supervised Vision Transformers with Data Augmentation Strategies using Morphological Operations for Writer Retrieval -- EAU-Net: A New Edge-Attention based U-Net for Nationality Identification -- Progressive Multitask Learning Network for Online Chinese Signature Segmentation and Recognition -- Symbol and Graphics Recognition -- Musigraph: Optical Music Recognition through Object Detection and Graph Neural Network -- Combining CNN and Transformer as Encoder to Improve End-to-end Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition Accuracy -- A Vision Transformer based Scene Text Recognizer with Multi-Grained Encoding and Decoding -- Spatial Attention and Syntax Rule Enhanced Tree Decoder for Offline Handwritten Mathematical Expression Recognition -- Handwriting Recognition and Understanding -- FPRNet: End-to-end Full-page Recognition Model for Handwritten Chinese Essay -- Active Transfer Learning for Handwriting Recognition -- Recognition-free Question Answering on Handwritten Document Collections -- Handwriting recognition and automatic scoring for descriptive answers in Japanese language tests -- A Weighted Combination of Semantic and Syntactic Word Image Representations -- Combining Self-Training and Minimal Annotations for Handwritten Word Recognition -- Script-Level Word Sample Augmentation for Few-shot Handwritten Text Recognition -- Towards understanding and improving handwriting with AI -- ChaCo: Character Contrastive Learning for Handwritten Text Recognition -- Enhancing Indic Handwritten Text Recognition using Global Semantic Information -- Yi Characters Online Handwriting Recognition Models Based on Recurrent Neural Network: RnnNet-Yi and ParallelRnnNet-Yi -- Self-Attention Networks for Non-Recurrent Handwritten Text Recognition -- An Efficient Prototype-based Model for Handwritten Text Recognition with Multi-Loss Fusion -- Handwriting Datasets and Synthetic Handwriting Generation -- Urdu Handwritten Ligature Generation using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) -- SCUT-CAB: A New Benchmark Dataset of Ancient Chinese Books with Complex Layouts for Document Layout Analysis -- A Benchmark Gurmukhi Handwritten Character Dataset: Acquisition, Compilation, and Recognition -- Synthetic Data Generation for Semantic Segmentation of Lecture Videos -- Generating synthetic styled Chu Nom characters -- UOHTD: Urdu Offline Handwritten Text Dataset -- Document Analysis and Processing -- DAZeTD: Deep Analysis of Zones in Torn Documents -- CNN-based Ruled Line Removal in Handwritten Documents -- Complex Table Structure Recognition in the Wild using Transformer and Identity Matrix-based Augmentation.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, ICFHR 2022, which took place in Hyderabad, India, during December 4-7, 2022. The 36 full papers and 1 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Historical Document Processing; Signature Verification and Writer Identification; Symbol and Graphics Recognition; Handwriting Recognition and Understanding; Handwriting Datasets and Synthetic Handwriting Generation; Document Analysis and Processing.