This document presents a proposal to encode a subset of symbols used in nautical charts. As documented, the characters in this particular subset occur regularly in running text and are therefore suitable to encoding as characters. This document also provides background information on the general nature of symbols used in nautical charts, with particular emphasis on those that appear in publicat...

This paper presents the rst published results for automatic recognition of continuous Cantonese speech with very large vocabulary. The size of the vocabulary covered by this system is about the same as that encountered in the Hong Kong local Chinese newspaper, Wen Hui Bao (å×ø ). The system covers 6335 Chinese characters (r) and a large number of Chinese words (ü) can be formed by combining the...

Text Segmentation is one of the critical and vital step in OCR system of any language because accuracy of OCR depends upon correctly segmented characters. Segmentation divide the text images into its constituent parts (i.e. lines, components or words and individual characters). As Urdu and Arabic are highly cursive and context sensitive in nature and have improper space between words therefore,...

Human can segment a character from handwritten Chinese character text line having many overlaps or joins. Therefore, a fairly high degree of accuracy in the character segment,ation may be attained by imitating the human visual processing. In the cognitive science field, it is proposed that the method called 'field of induction on the retina' is similar to human subjective image processing. But,...

This paper presents a simple 7/2-approximation algorithm for the max duo-preservation string mapping (MPSM) problem. This problem is complementary to the classical and well studied min common string partition problem (MCSP), that computes the minimal edit distance between two strings when the only operation allowed is to shift blocks of characters. The algorithm improves on the previously best ...