A generic method of cleaning and enhancing handwritten data from business forms

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 84-96

  Ye, Xiangyun ^a,b   Cheriet, Mohamed ^b   Suen, Ching Y ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Form processing; Goal directed evaluation; Handwriting recognition; Item extraction; Mathematical morphology

Indexed keywords

FORM PROCESSING; GOAL-DIRECTED; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; ITEM EXTRACTION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; RECOGNITION ENGINES; STATISTICAL FEATURES; SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE EVALUATIONS;

CLEANING; ENGINES; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 6444229507     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100320100056     Document Type: Article

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