Writing groups 
- French Labs GRCE http://www.infres.enst.fr/~elc/GRCE/
- Language and Media Processing
   Laboratory, David Doermann 
http://www.cfar.umd.edu/~doermann/mainpage.html
- Laboratoire Scribens, Réjean Plamondon http://www.scribens.polymtl.ca/
- Department of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, George Nagy http://www.ecse.rpi.edu/homepages/nagy/
- Document Image Decoding Area, Information Sciences & Technologies Lab, PARC, Xerox, Henry Baird http://www.parc.xerox.com/istl/members/baird/
- AT&T  Labs, Image Processing Research Dept,Yann Le Cun http://yann.lecun.com/ex/group/index.html
- Computing Sciences Research Center Bell Laboratories, Tin Kam Ho http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/tkh/
- Department of Mathematics, Lam Suk Wah, Louisa http://www.ied.edu.hk/math/swlam.htm
- Center for Artificial Vision Research, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Korea University, Seong-Whan Lee http://image.korea.ac.kr/swlee/
- Software, Image & Document Engineering Group, Rolf Ingold http://www-iiuf.unifr.ch/~ingold/home.html
- Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (FKI), Horst Bunke http://iamwww.unibe.ch/~fkiwww/staff/bunke.html
- Dipartimento di Informatica Universita' di Bari, Floriana Esposito http://lacam.di.uniba.it:8000/people/espof.htm
- CEDAR : Centre of Excellence for   Document Analysis and Recognition, Sargur N. Srihari http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/
- Ecole de technologie supérieure Mohamed Cheriet http://www.gpa.etsmtl.ca/rech/cheriet5.htm
- CENPARMI, Ching  Y. Suen http://www.cenparmi.concordia.ca/
- Recognition and Understanding System(RU Group), Toyohide Watanabe http://www.watanabe.nuie.nagoya-u.ac.jp/
ITC-irst, TRENTO - ITALY, Stefano Messelodi http://hera.itc.it:3003/~messelod/

 
Companies
- A2iA, Olivier Baret http://www.a2ia.com/
- ITESOFT, Didier Charpentier http://www.itesoft.com/
- Berger-Levrault, Françoise Gir http://www.berger-levrault.fr/
- JOUVE, J. P. Raysz http://www.jouve.fr/
- Sharing Technologies, Michel Venet http://www.Sharing.com/
- Neoptec, Jean Pierre Moussette http://www.neoptec.com/
- La poste, M. Gilloux http://www.srt-poste.fr/
- Kofax Imaging, David Silver http://www.mosarca.com/GEDINFO/KOFAX2.htm
Tools 
- OCR Resource List http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/8087/ocr/ocr_resource.html
- OCR with a smile http://hosc.net/ocr/
- Search Results : OCR http://www.overture.com/d/search/?Promo=GeoCities_ad1html.17_11&Keywords=ocr
Papers / General comments 
- Survey of the State of the Art 
 in Human Language Technology
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/