Self-correcting 100-font classifier

Henry S. Baird; George Nagy

doi:10.1117/12.171098

23 March 1994 Self-correcting 100-font classifier

Henry S. Baird, George Nagy

Proceedings Volume 2181, Document Recognition; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171098
Event: IS&T/SPIE 1994 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1994, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We have developed a practical scheme to take advantage of local typeface homogeneity to improve the accuracy of a character classifier. Given a polyfont classifier which is capable of recognizing any of 100 typefaces moderately well, our method allows it to specialize itself automatically to the single -- but otherwise unknown -- typeface it is reading. Essentially, the classifier retrains itself after examining some of the images, guided at first by the preset classification boundaries of the given classifier, and later by the behavior of the retrained classifier. Experimental trials on 6.4 M pseudo-randomly distorted images show that the method improves on 95 of the 100 typefaces. It reduces the error rate by a factor of 2.5, averaged over 100 typefaces, when applied to an alphabet of 80 ASCII characters printed at ten point and digitized at 300 pixels/inch. This self-correcting method complements, and does not hinder, other methods for improving OCR accuracy, such as linguistic contextual analysis.

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Henry S. Baird and George Nagy "Self-correcting 100-font classifier", Proc. SPIE 2181, Document Recognition, (23 March 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171098

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