An Interactive System for Reading Unformatted Printed Text

IEEE Transactions on Computers

Volumn C-20, Issue 12, 1971, Pages 1527-1543

  Ascher, Robert N ^a   Koppelman, George M ^a   Miller, Martha J ^a   George, Nagy ^a   Shelton, Glenmore L ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive systems; data entry; graphic; graphic editing; man machine interaction; multifont recognition; optical character recognition; optical scanner; printed document reader; tablet; text reading

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING, CHARACTER RECOGNITION; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL, COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTERS, DIGITAL--CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0015200792     PISSN: 00189340     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/T-C.1971.223166     Document Type: Article

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