DocumentCode
2470902
Title
Locating address blocks and postcodes in mail-piece images
Author
Whichello, Adrian P. ; Yan, Hong
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sydney Univ., NSW, Australia
Volume
3
fYear
1996
fDate
25-29 Aug 1996
Firstpage
716
Abstract
An efficient method is presented for automatically locating address block candidates in images of mail pieces. An image is segmented into clusters and the candidate cluster, based on size, position and pixel density consistency is selected for subsequent processing by OCR methods. The success of the method has been demonstrated for several test images
Keywords
filtering theory; high-pass filters; image segmentation; postal services; OCR; address blocks; clusters; mail-piece images; postcodes; Automation; Filtering; Gabor filters; Image segmentation; Impedance; Optical character recognition software; Pixel; Postal services; Sorting; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Pattern Recognition, 1996., Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location
Vienna
ISSN
1051-4651
Print_ISBN
0-8186-7282-X
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICPR.1996.547262
Filename
547262
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