Fast location of address blocks and postcodes in mail-piece images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1199-1214

  Whichello, Adrian P ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Address block location; Image segmentation; Postal automation; Postcode location

Indexed keywords

ADDRESS BLOCK LOCATION; AUTOMATED POSTAL SORTING; PIXEL DENSITY;

ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; MAIL HANDLING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SCANNING; SORTING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0030230791     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-8655(96)00075-X     Document Type: Article

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