Recognition of handwritten foreign mail

Author

Tomai, Catalin I. ; Allen, Kristin M. ; Srihari, Sargur N.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

882

Lastpage

886

Abstract

Foreign mail recognition (FMR) is part of the more general problem of recognizing destination addresses in a mail stream. It is defined as the problem of finding the country of destination of a mail piece sent to a foreign address. We discuss some of the differences between FMR and domestic mail recognition (DMR) and present its specific challenges. Two complementary baseline algorithms that use heuristics in combining word, character and digit recognizers are presented. Their performance is improved by reducing the search space for the address elements using address configuration distributions. Preliminary results are presented

Keywords

handwritten character recognition; optical character recognition; postal services; address configuration distributions; character recognizers; country of destination; destination addresses; digit recognizers; domestic mail recognition; foreign address; foreign mail recognition; handwritten foreign mail; mail stream; search space; word recognizers; Africa; Character recognition; Cities and towns; Computer science; Databases; Error analysis; Handwriting recognition; Heuristic algorithms; Magnetic resonance; Postal services;

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.2001.953913

Filename

953913