| DL | Deep Learning |
| HTR | Handwritten Text Recognition |
| OCR | Optical Character Recognition |
| HMM | Hidden Markov Model |
| CNN | Convolutional Neural Networks |
| FCN | Fully Convolutional Network |
| RNN | Recurrent Neural Networks |
| CRNN | Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks |
| BGRU | Bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units |
| LSTM | Long Short Term Memory |
| MDLSTM | Multi Dimensional Long Short Term Memory |
| BLSTM | Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory |
| S2S | Sequence-To-Sequence |
| CTC | Connectionist Temporal Classification |
| GPU | Graphics Processing Unit |
| LOER | Layout Ordering Error Rate |
| mAPCER | mean Average Precision Character Error Rate |
| mAP | mean Average Precision |
| CER | Character Error Rate |
| WER | Word Error Rate |
| XML | Extensible Markup Language |
| MLP | Multi-Layer Perceptron |