Advances in recognition methods for handwritten Kanji characters

IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

Volumn E79-D, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 401-410

  Umeda, Michio ^a  

^a OSAKA ELECTRO COMMUNICATION UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character understanding; Feature extraction; Kanji character recognition; Matching algorithm; Optical character recognition; Pattern matching

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

CHARACTER UNDERSTANDING; KANJI CHARACTER RECOGNITION; MATCHING ALGORITHM; PATTERN MATCHING; STROKE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030149146     PISSN: 09168532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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