Title :
Automatic sorting of Australian handwritten letter mail using OCR and address feature verification
Author :
Leedham, C.G. ; Jones, P.E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK
Abstract :
Work carried out within a document analysis program is described. The work concerns the analysis and understanding of handwritten letter mail. Specific topics discussed are: (a) address segmentation into words and characters; (b) optical character recognition (OCR) of the postcode characters; and (c) feature extraction to match handwritten words against words in a dictionary database
Keywords :
document image processing; feature extraction; mailing systems; optical character recognition; postal services; Australian handwritten letter mail; OCR; address feature verification; address segmentation; automatic sorting; characters; dictionary database; document analysis program; feature extraction; optical character recognition; words; Australia; Cathode ray tubes; Optical character recognition software; Postal services; Sorting; Testing;
Conference_Titel :
TENCON '92. ''Technology Enabling Tomorrow : Computers, Communications and Automation towards the 21st Century.' 1992 IEEE Region 10 International Conference.
Conference_Location :
Melbourne, Vic.
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0849-2
DOI :
10.1109/TENCON.1992.271938
