DocumentCode :
2630356
Title :
Refinement and testing of a character recognition system based on feature extraction in grayscale space
Author :
Sakoda, Bill ; Zhou, Jiangying ; Pavlidis, Theo
Author_Institution :
Image Analysis Lab., State Univ. of New York, Stony Brook, NY, USA
fYear :
1993
fDate :
20-22 Oct 1993
Firstpage :
464
Lastpage :
469
Abstract :
A method for recognizing degraded text is described. One application domain is postal address blocks, where the system must function with varying and unspecified fonts, dot matrix printing, and poor print quality. The design achieves tolerance to differing contrast and degraded print via gray-scale analysis, and omnifont capability and good performance on touching and broken characters by encoding character shapes as graphs. Experimental results on address blocks supplied by the US Postal Service are presented. Experiments on subsampling the data indicate that the performance at 100 dpi is very close to that of the original 300 dpi
Keywords :
character recognition; feature extraction; postal services; word processing; US Postal Service; application domain; character recognition system; character shapes; degraded text; dot matrix printing; feature extraction; gray-scale analysis; grayscale space; omnifont capability; poor print quality; postal address blocks; Character recognition; Degradation; Encoding; Gray-scale; Performance analysis; Postal services; Printing; Shape; System testing; Text recognition;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Document Analysis and Recognition, 1993., Proceedings of the Second International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Tsukuba Science City
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-4960-7
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/ICDAR.1993.395694
Filename :
395694
Link To Document :
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