The Use of Word Shape Information for Cursive Script Recognition
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چکیده
Word shape information can be helpful in handwriting recognition. It can be used by a segmentation based recognizer to verify the results of the recognition of individual segmented letters. It is often one of the main features used by wholistic recognizers. This paper describes extraction of the word shape information through identification of the middle zone, then ascenders and descenders. Extracted information is applied both in a bottom-up and top-down fashion resulting in a verification mechanism for existing segmentation based system and a new wholistic recognizer. The wholistic recognizer is found relatively weak. However, when the two are combined, a significant improvement is observed. Recognition results are presented.
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