Chinese Payee Name Recognition Based on Seal Information of Chinese Bank Checks

This paper presents a prototype system of Chinese payee name recognition (PNR) based on seal information in the back of Chinese bank checks. First, the seal imprints in the back images of Chinese bank checks are detected and extracted based on the color information. Second, the seal characters representing the payee name are segmented, rotated to horizontal position, and then recognized respectively. Third, the recognized seal characters are considered as the dictionary and payee name recognition is carried out as a verification process. Experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.