The State of the Art in On-Line Handwriting Recognition

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 1990, Pages 787-808

  Tappert, Charles C ^a   Suen, Ching Y ^b   Wakahara, Toru ^c  

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

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^c NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

Natural input to computers; on line handwriting recognition; real time character recognition; tablet digitizers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS;

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; POSTPROCESSING TECHNIQUES; PREPROCESSING; SHAPE RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0025468480     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.57669     Document Type: Article

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