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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 1999
Filed:
Aug. 04, 1997
Applicant:
Inventors:
Abdel N Al-Karmi, Unionville, CA;
Shamsher S Singh, Rochester, MN (US);
Baldev Singh Soor, Markham, CA;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
382186 ; 382197 ;
Abstract
A method for optical character recognition particularly suitable for cursive and scripted text follows the tracings of the script and encodes them as a sequence of directional vectors. Another aspect of the method adaptively preprocesses each word or sub-word of interconnected characters as a unit and the characters are accepted only when all characters in a unit have been recognized without leaving a remainder of any vectors in the unit.