A system for automatic Chinese business card recognition

Author

Pan, Wumo ; Jin, Jianming ; Shi, Guangshun ; Wang, Q.R.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Machine Intelligence, Nankai Univ., Tianjin, China

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

577

Lastpage

581

Abstract

We present a system for automatic Chinese business card recognition. Chinese business card is characterized by its complex layout - Chinese-English mixed character sets and diverse typesetting. Our goal is to extract meaningful information item from the scanned image, such as "holder-name", "title", "address", etc. The automatic recognition task is divided into three stages: 1) document geometrical layout analysis; 2) bilingual character recognition; 3) text understanding and information extraction. The final results of this system are stored in database for later use. The whole system has been tested with card images scanned at 400 dpi and results are reported

Keywords

document image processing; feature extraction; knowledge based systems; optical character recognition; Chinese business card recognition; Chinese characters; English characters; bilingual character recognition; document geometrical layout; information extraction; knowledge based system; text understanding; typesetting; Business; Character recognition; Data mining; Degradation; Image recognition; Information analysis; Machine intelligence; Text analysis; Text recognition; Typesetting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Document Analysis and Recognition, 2001. Proceedings. Sixth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1263-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953855

Filename

953855