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Character Segmentation Scheme for OCR System: For Myanmar Printed Documents

Character Segmentation Scheme for OCR System: For Myanmar Printed Documents

Htwe Pa Pa Win, Phyo Thu Thu Khine, Khin Nwe Ni Tun
Copyright: © 2011 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 4 |Pages: 9
ISSN: 2155-6997|EISSN: 2155-6989|EISBN13: 9781613506103|DOI: 10.4018/ijcvip.2011100104
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Win, Htwe Pa Pa, et al. "Character Segmentation Scheme for OCR System: For Myanmar Printed Documents." IJCVIP vol.1, no.4 2011: pp.50-58. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcvip.2011100104

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Win, H. P., Khine, P. T., & Tun, K. N. (2011). Character Segmentation Scheme for OCR System: For Myanmar Printed Documents. International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP), 1(4), 50-58. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcvip.2011100104

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Win, Htwe Pa Pa, Phyo Thu Thu Khine, and Khin Nwe Ni Tun. "Character Segmentation Scheme for OCR System: For Myanmar Printed Documents," International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP) 1, no.4: 50-58. http://doi.org/10.4018/ijcvip.2011100104

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Abstract

Automatic machine-printed Optical Characters or texts Recognizers (OCR) are highly desirable for a multitude of modern IT applications, including Digital Library software. However, the state of the art OCR systems cannot do for Myanmar scripts as the language poses many challenges for document understanding. Therefore, the authors design an Optical Character Recognition System for Myanmar Printed Document (OCRMPD), with several proposed techniques that can automatically recognize Myanmar printed text from document images. In order to get more accurate system, the authors propose the method for isolation of the character image by using not only the projection methods but also structural analysis for wrongly segmented characters. To reveal the effectiveness of the segmentation technique, the authors follow a new hybrid feature extraction method and choose the SVM classifier for recognition of the character image. The proposed algorithms have been tested on a variety of Myanmar printed documents and the results of the experiments indicate that the methods can increase the segmentation accuracy as well as recognition rates.

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