A novel framework for automatic sorting of postal documents with multi-script address blocks

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 3507-3521

  Basu, Subhadip ^a   Das, Nibaran ^a   Sarkar, Ram ^a   Kundu, Mahantapas ^a   Nasipuri, Mita ^a   Kumar Basu, Dipak ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Automatic mail sorting; Handwritten numeral recognition; Multi script postal address block; Quad tree based feature extraction; Script identification for numerals; Support vector machine

Indexed keywords

HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL RECOGNITION; MULTI-SCRIPT POSTAL ADDRESS BLOCK; QUAD TREES; SCRIPT IDENTIFICATION; SCRIPT IDENTIFICATION FOR NUMERALS;

CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; LINGUISTICS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 77953613023     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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