Corpus-based HIT-MW database for offline recognition of general-purpose Chinese handwritten text

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-38

  Su, Tonghua ^a   Zhang, Tianwen ^a   Guan, Dejun ^b  

^a HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Data acquisition; Handwritten Chinese text; Optical character recognition; Standardization

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; STANDARDIZATION;

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HANDWRITTEN CHINESE TEXT;

DATA ACQUISITION;

EID: 34249783455     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-006-0037-6     Document Type: Article

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