Optical Character Recognition Mori Hardback Wiley–Blackwell 9780471308195

Optical Character RecognitionAuthor(s): Shunji Mori, Hirobumi Nishida, Hiromitsu Yamada\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Wiley-Interscience\nISBN-13: 9780471308195, 978-0471308195\nSynopsis\nAs optical character recognition (OCR) begins to find applicationsranging from store checkout scanners to money-changing machines andpostal system automation, it has become one of the most dynamicareas in information science today. Yet few volumes explore thisdata-oriented process without relying heavily on mathematicalbackground reading. Now, Shunji Mori, Hirobumi Nishida, and Hiromitsu Yamada, among thefield's most respected researchers since its inception, presentthis self-contained, clearly written guidebook to OCR--the firstcomprehensive treatment of the preprocessing, feature-extraction,and systematic description-matching stages of the OCR [url] a wealth of original research material available here forthe first time, this book is both an ideas