Abstract
We developed a check reading system which recognizes both the legal amount and the courtesy amount on bank checks. It addresses the problem of French, omni-scriptor, cursive handwriting recognition, and is designed to meet industrial requirements, such as high processing speed, robustness, and extremely low error rates.
Our system is based on several key ideas: (1) hierarchical organization; starting out with pixel images, the system elaborates intermediate representations, such as strokes, letters, and words, which are grouped to form objects in higher levels. (2) The objects of any hierarchical level are described in terms of soft decisions (probabilities). Hard decisions are only taken in the final amount recognition process. (3) Use of prior information when available. (4) Wherever possible, our system makes use of several complementary algorithms to accomplish a given task.
This paper deals particularly with the recognition of the courtesy (numeral) amount. Results obtained on a large data base of French bank checks are presented.
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Anisimov, V., Gorski, N., Price, D., Baret, O., Knerr, S. (1995). Bank check reading: Recognizing the courtesy amount. In: Chin, R.T., Ip, H.H.S., Naiman, A.C., Pong, TC. (eds) Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics. ICSC 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1024. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60697-1_99
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