Automatic bankcheck processing: A new engineered system

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 467-504

  Dimauro, G ^a   Impedovo, S ^a   Pirlo, G ^a   Salzo, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bankcheck recognition; CASE tools; Character recognition; Contextual knowledge; Document processing; Handwriting recognition; Multi expert systems; Signature verification; Software engineering; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 5244343153     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001497000214     Document Type: Article

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