Reviews: Joint Line Segmentation and Transcription for End-to-End Handwritten Paragraph Recognition

Positives: -The idea of applying technique to generalize single-line handwriting recognition to multi-line is both an elegant idea and a natural next step. It is unsurprising that this is one of at least two works (mentioned by the authors) attempting similar techniques (not that this is relevant, but I consider this to be the more mature/developed work of the two). The colorized attention figure is particularly gratifying. Areas for improvement: -The comparison to established benchmarks raises more questions than it provides answers. As the authors note, this comparison is apples-to-oranges.