A binary-tree-based OCR technique for machine-printed characters

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 403-412

  Gatos, B ^a   Papamarkos, Nikos ^a   Chamzas, C ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Binary features; Classification; Feature extraction; Matching; Optical character recognition

Indexed keywords

BINARY CODES; DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RELIABILITY;

BINARY TREE CLASSIFICATION TECHNIQUE; MACHINE PRINTED CHARACTERS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031198796     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0952-1976(97)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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