Recognition of handprinted Kanji characters by the stroke matching method

  • Authors:

  • Keiji Kobayashi;Fumio Yoda;Katsuyoshi Yamamoto;Hajime Nambu

  • Affiliations:

  • Information Systems and Electronics Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., 325 Kamimachiya, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan;Information Systems and Electronics Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., 325 Kamimachiya, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan;Information Systems and Electronics Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., 325 Kamimachiya, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan;Information Systems and Electronics Development Laboratory, Mitsubishi Electric Corp., 325 Kamimachiya, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

This paper describes an improved stroke matching method for the recognition of handprinted Kanji characters. Using the stroke feature and two additional global features, a recognition rate of over 90% has been obtained for about 1000 Kanji characters.