Offline general handwritten word recognition using an approximate BEAM matching algorithm

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 1009-1021

  Favata, John T ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b BUFFALO STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beam search; Handwriting recognition; Machine reading; OCR; Pattern recognition; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; MACHINE RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0035440370     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.955113     Document Type: Article

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