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ICSC 1995: Image Analysis Applications and Computer Graphics pp 152–160Cite as

An object-oriented architecture for Chinese character composition

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Abstract

In the process of digitizing Chinese characters, approaches which are quite different from those used for European characters can reduce the storage required for the glyphs and, at the same time, improve the efficiency of digitization. However, these approaches often induce some other subprocesses and intermediate arguments which require a lot of human effort and knowledge. We illustrate an object-oriented approach to digitization of Chinese character glyphs (which we have implemented in Postscript), in which all intermediate subprocesses and arguments are hidden from the user, generating the characters in a black-box process.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong

    Ivan S. B. Wong & Avi C. Naiman

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  1. Ivan S. B. Wong
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Roland T. Chin Horace H. S. Ip Avi C. Naiman Ting-Chuen Pong

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Wong, I.S.B., Naiman, A.C. (1995). An object-oriented architecture for Chinese character composition. 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_98

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