Second Census Optical Character Recognition Systems Conference

摘要

The results of the Second Census Optical Character Recognition (OCR) SystemsConference are described. There were two conference tests, one scanned from microfilm, the other from paper. Each test consisted of three thousand miniforms with three answer fields per form. The answers consisted of phases associated with the respondant's occupation. Twenty-five organizations participated in the conference, but only ten submitted results for scoring by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The results from one organization were good enough to suggest that OCR may now be sufficiently well developed to be used in a future Census.