Character And Handwriting Recognition: Expanding Frontiers

Download or read book Character And Handwriting Recognition: Expanding Frontiers written by Patrick S P Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1991-08-29 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Character and handwriting recognition by computers is attracting much attention particularly because of its potential for application in many areas such as office automation, bank check processing, recognition of postal addresses and ZIP Codes, signature verification, and document and text recognition.Over the past four decades, many methods have been proposed, developed and tested for computers to recognize characters, and they have been reported in a variety of publications. The present volume is a coherent and integrated publication containing papers which give new research results in this increasingly active field. It is a boon to researchers, scientists and engineers who need to keep abreast of new developments in character and handwriting methodologies and applications.