Address-Block Extraction by Bayesian Rule

  • Authors:
  • Tatsuhiko Kagehiro;Masashi Koga;Hiroshi Sako;Hiromichi Fujisawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan;Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan;Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan;Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

  • Venue:
  • ICPR '04 Proceedings of the Pattern Recognition, 17th International Conference on (ICPR'04) Volume 2 - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

A method for extracting a recipient address-block from a mail image has been developed. The method is composed of two steps: nomination of address-block candidates and evaluation of these candidates by using the Bayesian rule according to each of address-block type. Accordingly, the proposed method can cope with various types of address-blocks. The effectiveness of the method was confirmed in several address extraction experiments. These experiments show that the top-five extraction results include one correct address -block in 94% of total number of printed-mail cases and 89% in of handwritten- mail cases.