A knowledge-based segmentation algorithm for enhanced recognition of handwritten courtesy amounts

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 305-316

  Hussein, Karim M ^a   Agarwal, Arun ^b   Gupta, Amar ^a   Wang, Patrick S P ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HYDERABAD   (India)

^c NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automata; Character recognition; Check processing; Classification; Knowledge based; Parser; Segmentation; Syntactic

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; FINITE AUTOMATA; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

DETERMINISTIC FINITE AUTOMATON;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033078416     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00073-9     Document Type: Article

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