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Optical character recognition (OCR) is the most prominent and successful example of pattern recognition to date. There are thousands of research papers and dozens of OCR products. __Optical Character____Rcognition: An Illustrated Guide to the Frontier__ offers a perspective on the performance of current OCR systems by illustrating and explaining actual OCR errors. The pictures and analysis provide insight into the strengths and weaknesses of current OCR systems, and a road map to future progress. __Optical Character Recognition: An Illustrated Guide to the Frontier__ will pique the interest of users and developers of OCR products and desktop scanners, as well as teachers and students of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and information retrieval. The first chapter compares the character recognition abilities of humans and computers. The next four chapters present 280 illustrated examples of recognition errors, in a taxonomy consisting of Imaging Defects, Similar Symbols, Punctuation, and Typography. These examples were drawn from large-scale tests conducted by the authors. The final chapter discusses possible approaches for improving the accuracy of today's systems, and

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Author

Stephen V. Rice, George Nagy, Thomas A. Nartker (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Science + Business Media

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9781461372813

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Technology, Science