Visual programming paradigms for handwriting applications

Author

Downton, A.C. ; Amiri, A. ; Hanlon, S.J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. Syst. Eng., Essex Univ., Colchester, UK

fYear

1994

fDate

12-13 Jul 1994

Abstract

The objective of the OSCAR (Offline Script and ChAracter Recognition toolset) project is to develop a prototyping environment for handwritten forms recognition applications which will allow a generic set of components to be rapidly configured to address any forms processing application. The toolkit consists of a visual programming framework together with components which include forms capture and layout specification, image preprocessing, feature extraction and classification algorithms for OCR, word recognition and signature verification, contextual postprocessing, and a unified set of evaluation databases. This paper describes the philosophy of the toolkit, design issues which are being addressed in building it, and some initial results which have been obtained using it

Keywords

handwriting recognition; optical character recognition; visual programming; OCR; OSCAR project; contextual postprocessing; evaluation databases; feature classification; feature extraction; forms capture; handwriting applications; handwritten forms recognition; image preprocessing; layout specification; offline script and character recognition toolset; prototyping environment; signature verification; visual programming paradigms; word recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

iet

Conference_Titel

Handwriting Analysis and Recognition: A European Perspective, IEE European Workshop on

Conference_Location

Brussels

Type

conf

Filename

383949