Empirical design of a holistic verifier for automatic sorting of handwritten Singapore postal addresses

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 737-740

  Lee, Chin Keong ^a   Leedham, Graham ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Address verification; Dictionary look up; Features extraction; Handwritten address interpretation

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

ALGORITHMIC ARCHITECTURES; AUTOMATIC SORTING; EMPIRICAL DESIGN; FEATURES EXTRACTION; HANDWRITTEN ADDRESS INTERPRETATION; HANDWRITTEN MAILS; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR);

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84953710865     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791892     Document Type: Conference Paper

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