Forty years of research in character and document recognition-an industrial perspective

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2435-2446

  Fujisawa, Hiromichi ^a  

^a HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Digital pen; Handwriting recognition; Hypothesis driven approaches; Information integration; Kanji recognition; OCR; Postal address recognition; Robustness design

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; HYPOTHESIS DRIVEN APPROACHES; KANJI RECOGNITION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 42749094384     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2008.03.015     Document Type: Article

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