CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION OF SCANNED AND REAL TIME HANDWRITTEN CHARACTERS

摘要

A handwritten character recognition system that includesa document scanner for generating scanned images of a previouslycreated document containing handwritten characters, anda pen and digitizing tablet for real time entry of handwrittencharacters by a user. The handwritten character recognitionsystem includes an image processor connected from the documentscanner for receiving the scanned image of a previouslycreated document and generating one or more ordered clusterarrays. The ordered cluster arrays contain spatially orderedcoordinate arrays of skeletal image ares representing and correspondingto the strokes of the handwritten characters whereinthe spatial order represents an induced time ordered sequenceof creation of the strokes of the handwritten characters that emulatesthe sequence of creation of the character strokes. A lowlevel recognition processor is connected from the time orderin-duction processor for receiving the ordered cluster arrays andgenerating a sequential character array wherein the sequentialcharacter array contains a character list for each ordered clusterarray and wherein each character list contains at least onecharacter identification representing a possible interpretation of thecorresponding ordered cluster array. A linguistic post processormay be connected from the low level recognition processorfor receiving the sequential character array and generating anoutput string representing the most probable interpretation ofthe handwritten characters of the document.