Cursive handwriting recognition is a challenging task for many real world applications such as document authentication, form processing, postal address recognition, reading machines for the blind, bank cheque recognition and interpretation of historical documents. Therefore, in the last few decades the researchers have put enormous effort to develop various techniques for handwriting segmentati...

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the most common goal of automatic bank cheque treatment systems is the recognition of handwritten information. However, in order to do this, it is necessary to use a reliable and efficient process able to identify and to extract the information, which can then be submitted to a further recognition phase. In this paper we present a process for identifying and distinguishing between handwritten i...

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A infeção por SARS-CoV-2 teve consequências diretas na saúde individual dos nossos doentes, mas também uma repercussão significativa a nível económico e social. Os sistemas de tiveram se adaptar rapidamente pandemia que colocou em cheque resiliência estados da sociedade. Analisamos o impacto primeira fase reorganização (limitação acesso cuidados foco direcionado para COVID-19) nos doentes risco...

The commercial and industrial applications, namely, business form reading, bank cheque reading, and full postal address reading, have constituted the majority of the market for handwriting recognition technology. Devanagari is the most popular script in India and is used to write texts in Hindi, Marathi and Nepali languages. Significant amount of work has been done on Devanagari isolated charac...

The emergence of e-commerce has created new financial needs that in many cases cannot be effectively fulfilled by the traditional payment systems. Recognizing this, virtually all interested parties are exploring various types of electronic payment systems, issues surrounding electronic payment system and digital currency. Broadly, electronic payment systems can be classified into four categorie...