Presentation	1997/3/18 Status Quo and the Future of Character Recognition Yasuaki NAKANO,
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Abstract(in English)	Some researchers in Japan may believe that the research level on character recognition in Japan is ranked very high in the world. It is true in a sence, but it is not without conditions. In this paper, the author points the background which has enabled OCR business to successes in Japan. It is noted that in present many researchers in the world are tackling with the recognition of cursive English words, while researchers in Japan seem not to be interrested in it. Neural networks and HMM are the main concern of the researchers, but how call they work? Is the future of the document OCR questionable? This paper dicusses these aspects also.
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Keyword(in English)	Character recognition / mail sorter / OCR / neural networks / HMM
Paper #	PRMU96-189
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Committee	PRMU
Conference Date	1997/3/18(1days)
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Registration To	Pattern Recognition and Media Understanding (PRMU)
Language	JPN
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Title (in English)	Status Quo and the Future of Character Recognition
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Keyword(1)	Character recognition
Keyword(2)	mail sorter
Keyword(3)	OCR
Keyword(4)	neural networks
Keyword(5)	HMM
1st Author's Name	Yasuaki NAKANO
1st Author's Affiliation	Dept. of Information Engineering()
Date	1997/3/18
Paper #	PRMU96-189
Volume (vol)	vol.96
Number (no)	598
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	8
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