Industrial bank check processing: The A2iA CheckReader™

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 196-206

  Gorski, Nikolai ^a   Anisimov, Valery ^a   Augustin, Emmanuel ^a   Baret, Olivier ^a   Maximov, Sergey ^a  

^a Artificial Intelligence and Image Analysis ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Automatic reading; Bank check processing; Document analysis; Handwriting recognition; Intelligent character recognition; Payment systems

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC READING; BANK CHECKS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; INTELLIGENT CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PAYMENT SYSTEMS;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0012793547     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013561     Document Type: Article

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