A Handwriting Understanding Environment (HUE) for rapid prototyping in handwriting and document analysis research

Author

Cracknell, C. ; Downton, A.C.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

fYear

1999

fDate

20-22 Sep 1999

Firstpage

362

Lastpage

365

Abstract

HUE (the Handwriting Understanding Environment) is a software framework for handwriting and document analysis built around a two-level programming model in which components are implemented in a system programming language (typically C++) and are connected together into prototype systems using the scripting language Tcl Tk. HUE is an extended version of TABS (a previous handwriting analysis framework), and incorporates the authors´ experience of using TABS for around 2 years in data-intensive handwriting and document analysis research and evaluation. HUE currently contains 94 C++ components, 7 native data types, 11 custom-built Tcl Tk packages, a novel dynamic user interface, and several demonstration systems implemented as Tcl scripts

Keywords

document image processing; handwritten character recognition; object-oriented programming; software prototyping; user interfaces; C++ components; Handwriting Understanding Environment; TABS; Tcl Tk scripting language; custom-built Tcl Tk packages; demonstration systems; document analysis; dynamic user interface; handwriting analysis; native data types; rapid prototyping; software framework; system programming language; two-level programming model; Computer languages; Computer vision; Design engineering; Handwriting recognition; Image processing; Libraries; Programming profession; Prototypes; Systems engineering and theory; Text analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 1999. ICDAR '99. Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Bangalore

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0318-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791799

Filename

791799