Lexicon-Driven Handwritten Word Recognition

Book: Electronic Imaging Technology

Editor(s): Edward R. Dougherty

Author(s): Paul Gader

Published: 1999

https://doi.org/10.1117/3.2570046.ch9

Abstract

The focus of this chapter is on a class of methodologies for computer recognition of handwritten words. Handwriting recognition, and more specifically, character recognition, is one of the oldest problems of pattern recognition. In fact, one of the first demonstrations of the Mark I Perceptron neurocomputer of Rosenblatt, performed in the late 1950s, involved character recognition.