Govindaraju's research impact extends far beyond revolutionizing the postal service industry, branching into Digital Libraries and Multilingual OCR. His methods facilitate early disease detection via healthcare form processing for the New York State (NYS) Department of Health, enhance patient safety through automated reading of medical prescriptions, and enable efficient access to historical documents, including Sanskrit and Arabic texts. Moreover, his techniques enable the retrieval of lecture video segments with significant handwritten and whiteboard content. Through innovations in word spotting, transcript mapping, text retrieval, and writer identification, Govindaraju has introduced powerful methods that advance technology across diverse applications.