Some new heuristics for thinning binary handprinted characters for OCR.
F. W. M. StentifordR. G. MortimerPublished in: IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. (1983)
Keyphrases
- character recognition
- optical character recognition
- character segmentation
- chinese characters
- printed documents
- handwritten characters
- thinning algorithm
- printed characters
- ocr systems
- license plate
- preprocessing
- hand written
- machine vision
- text recognition
- document images
- heuristic search
- handwriting recognition
- search algorithm
- post processing
- distance transform
- edge detection
- document analysis
- automatic recognition
- heuristic methods
- text lines
- topological properties
- non binary
- image processing
- medial axis