A system to read names and addresses on tax forms

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1038-1049

  Srihari, Sargur N ^a   Shin, Yong Chul ^a   Ramanaprasad, Vemulapati ^a   Lee, Dar Shyang ^a  

^a the State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MULTIPROCESSING SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; TABLE LOOKUP;

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT RECOGNITION; HAND PRINTED INFORMATION; MACHINE PRINTED INFORMATION; NAME AND ADDRESS BLOCK READER SYSTEM; SOFTWARE DESIGN; TAX FORMS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030190996     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/5.503302     Document Type: Article

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