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Cursive handwritten word recognition using multiple segmentation determined by contour analysis

Yamada et al., 1996

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2997513110328658133
Author
Yamada H
Nakano Y
Publication year
Publication venue
IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

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This paper proposes a method for cursive handwritten word recognition. Cursive word recognition generally consists of segmentation of a cursive word, character recognition and word recognition. Traditional approaches detect one candidate of segmentation point …
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