Novel multiple-stage approach to the recognition of handwrittenwords extracted from British cheques

摘要

A novel multiple-stage approach to the recognition of handwrittenwords is presented, and its characteristics investigated using adatabase of words extracted from British cheques. In terms of bothrecognition performance and pattern throughput the proposed approachoffers great flexibility in adapting to various operating constraints,allowing optimisation with respect to differing task requirements. It isdemonstrated that this multiple-stage technique can enhance recognitionaccuracy in comparison with the performance of the component stages. Inaddition, this multiple-stage approach delivers higher throughput thanthat achievable by the individual stages working alone. The proposedsystem is therefore shown to combine high recognition rate with highthroughput, a combination well suited to many practical applications