Alexandros Papandreou was born in 1985 in Athens, Greece and he received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 from Democritus University of Thrace. Currently he is awarded a full scholarship and he is working on his Ph.D. in "New Techniques of Document Image Processing" in the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He participated at the EU funded projects IMPACT (http://www.impactproject.eu/) and TranScriptorium (http://transcriptorium.eu/). His main research interests are in Document Image Preprocessing and Normalization, Pattern Recognition, Historical Image Processing and OCR.