Automation of indian postal documents written in bangla and english

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1599-1632

  Vajda, S ^a   Roy, K ^b   Pal, U ^c   Chaudhuri, B B ^c   Belaid, A ^a  

^a LORIA   (France)

^b WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

DAB; Indian postal automation; NSHP HMM; Pin code; RLSA

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; NEURAL NETWORKS; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

DESTINATION ADDRESS BLOCKS; NAME RECOGNITION; NSHP-HMM; NUMERAL RECOGNITION; PIN-CODE; POSITIONAL INFORMATION; RLSA; RUN LENGTH SMOOTHING;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

EID: 74549148967     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001409007776     Document Type: Article

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