The Use of Context in Character Recognition.

Abstract

The recognition of text by machine has been studied for many years. Machine reading of text has long been viewed as a means for eliminating many of the most tedious jobs in our society, such as: computer input of a hundred million tax forms each year; sorting of billions of pieces of mail per year; processing of credit card transaction slips; and sorting all of the checks which must go through a few banks and clearing houses and be charged to the proper account. Checks can be read with fewer than one error per million because all of the printing is done in a single font with magnetic ink by carefully controlled machines.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1976
Accession Number
ADA030381

Entities

People

  • Edward G. Fisher

Organizations

  • University of Massachusetts Amherst

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Character Recognition
  • Colorants
  • Computers
  • Identification
  • Inks
  • Personality
  • Printing
  • Recognition

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Economics