Design and construction of an opaque optical contour tracer for character recognition research

This thesis describes the design and instrumentation of an opaque contour-tracing scanner for studies in optical character recognition (OCR). Most previous OCR machines have attempted to recognize characters by mask matching, a technique which requires a large and expensive computer, and which is s...

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Main Author: Austin, George Marshall
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/36013