Location and interpretation of destination addresses on handwritten Chinese envelopes

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 22, Issue 6-7, 2001, Pages 639-656

  Xue, Junliang ^a   Ding, Xiaoqing ^a   Liu, Changsong ^a   Zhang, Rui ^a   Qian, Weiwei ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

A; Addres block location; Address interpretation; Beam search; Character segmentation; search

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION;

BOTTOM-UP LOCATION METHOD;

PATTERN MATCHING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035339267     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(01)00010-1     Document Type: Article

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