Optical recognition of handwritten Chinese characters by hierarchical radical matching method

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-35

  Wang, An Bang ^a   Fan, Kuo Chin ^b  

^a Private Takming Junior College of Commerce   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character pattern detection; Knowledge matching; Radical extraction; Radical matching

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CHARACTER SETS; PATTERN MATCHING;

CHARACTER FEATURE; CHARACTER PATTERNS; CHINESE CHARACTERS; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE CHARACTER; KNOWLEDGE MATCHING; OPTICAL RECOGNITION; RADICAL MATCHING; RECOGNITION RATES; HIERARCHICAL RADICAL MATCHING METHODS;

EXTRACTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035196814     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(99)00207-1     Document Type: Article

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