Highly accurate recognition of printed korean characters through an improved two-stage classification method

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1935-1945

  Lee, Jin Soo ^a   Kwon, Oh Jun ^b   Bang, Sung Yang ^b  

^a LG Electronics Inc   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Character type; Grapheme recognition; Korean characters; Multi font multi size; Neural networks; OCR

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN MATCHING;

GRAPHEME RECOGNITION; KOREAN CHARACTERS; MULTI-FONT;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033360172     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00126-X     Document Type: Article

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