Document Image Analysis

by Bunke, H.; Wang, P. S. P.; Baird, Henry S.

• ISBN13: 9789810220464
• ISBN10: 9810220464
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1994-12-01
• Publisher: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUB CO INC

Summary

Addresses different subfields of document image analysis, including preprocessing and segmentation, form processing, handwriting recognition, line drawing and map processing, and contextual processing.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 1
A New Parallel Thinning Algorithm	p. 3
Background Structure in Document Images	p. 17
Analysis of Form Images	p. 35
Model-based Analysis and Understanding of Check Forms	p. 57
Document Structures: A Survey	p. 85
Automatic Input of Logic Diagrams by Recognizing Loop-Symbols and Rectilinear Connections	p. 117
Syntactic Analysis of Technical Drawing Dimensions	p. 135
Recognition of Elevation Value in Topographic Maps by Multi-angled Parallelism	p. 153
Character Recognition by Signature Approximation	p. 175
An Adaptive Modular Neural Network with Application to Unconstrained Character Recognition	p. 193
A Model-Based Split-and-Merge Method for Character String Recognition	p. 209
A Robust Stroke Extraction Method for Handwritten Chinese Characters	p. 227
Handprinted Chinese Character Recognition Using Probability Distribution Feature	p. 245
An Algorithm for Matching OCR-Generated Text Strings	p. 263
Index	p. 273
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