Handwriting Recognition Using Position Sensitive Letter N-Gram Matching

  • Authors:
  • Adnan El-Nasan;Sriharsha Veeramachaneni;George Nagy

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

We propose further improvement of a handwritingrecognition method that avoids segmentation while ableto recognize words that were never seen before inhandwritten form. This method is based on the fact thatfew pairs of English words share exactly the same set ofletter bigrams and even fewer share longer n-grams. Thelexical n-gram matches between every word in a lexiconand a set of reference words can be precomputed. Aposition-based match function then detects the matchesbetween the handwritten signal of a query word and eachreference word. We show that with a reasonable set ofreference words, the recognition of lexicon words exceeds90%.