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In this paper, the problem of estimating the readability of handwritten text is addressed. The estimation problem is posed as a two class classification problem where a text is classified as either readable or unreadable. A classifier is trained on this two class classification problem. In the training phase, for each text a number of features are extracted. At the same time the recognition rate achieved...