Indian Multi-Script Full Pin-code String Recognition for Postal Automation

  • Authors:
  • Umapada Pal;Rami Kumar Roy;Kaushik Roy;Fumitaka Kimura

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '09 Proceedings of the 2009 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Under three-language formula, the destination address block of postal document of an Indian state is generally written in three languages: English, Hindi and the State official language. Because of inter-mixing of these scripts in postal address writings, it is very difficult to identify the script by which a pin-code is written. Also, because of the writing style of different individuals some of the digits in a pin-code string may touch with its neighboring digits. Accurate segmentation of such touching components into individual digits is a difficult task. To avoid such difficulties, in this paper we proposed a tri-lingual (English, Hindi and Bangla) 6-digit full pin-code string recognition. We obtained 99.01% reliability from our proposed system when error and rejection rates are 0.83% and 15.27%, respectively.