Optical recognition of handwritten Chinese characters: Advances since 1980

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 205-225

  Hildebrandt, Thomas H ^a   Liu, Wentai ^b  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese character; Handwritten; OCR; Review

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS;

CONNECTIONIST PARADIGM; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTERS; RECOGNITION ALGORITHMS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0027542176     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(93)90030-Z     Document Type: Article

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