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A two-stage handwritten character segmentation approach in mail address recognition

Han et al., 2005

Document ID
5205462185710007843
Author
Han Z
Liu C
Yin X
Publication year
Publication venue
Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR'05)

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Character segmentation has become a crucial step for mail address recognition in the automatic post mail sorting system. In this paper, a two-stage character segmentation algorithm according to the characteristics of handwritten mail address characters is …
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