Title :
Locating address blocks and postcodes in mail-piece images
Author :
Whichello, Adrian P. ; Yan, Hong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Abstract :
An efficient method is presented for automatically locating address block candidates in images of mail pieces. An image is segmented into clusters and the candidate cluster, based on size, position and pixel density consistency is selected for subsequent processing by OCR methods. The success of the method has been demonstrated for several test images
Keywords :
filtering theory; high-pass filters; image segmentation; postal services; OCR; address blocks; clusters; mail-piece images; postcodes; Automation; Filtering; Gabor filters; Image segmentation; Impedance; Optical character recognition software; Pixel; Postal services; Sorting; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
Pattern Recognition, 1996., Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7282-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICPR.1996.547262
