Research on Machine Recognition of Handprinted Characters

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn PAMI-6, Issue 4, 1984, Pages 386-405

  Mori, Shunji ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^a   Yasuda, Michio ^b  

^a ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^b Hitachi Microcomputer Ltd Josuihon cho ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Chinese character; feature extraction; handprinted characters; recognition

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

HANDPRINTED CHINESE CHARACTERS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0021461455     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.1984.4767545     Document Type: Article

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