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This thesis addresses the problem of off-line hand-printed alphanumeric character recognition. Character separation procedure was first applied to break-off interconnected characters. The isolated characters are then classified into the best 30 out of the 62 possible classes using Hidden Markov Models. The final recognition was carried out by a nearest neighbor classifier using 64 features obtained from Kirsch operators and 33 contour features. The experiments were carried out using 12400 characters from NIST special database 19 and 6820 characters from our collections of hand-printed characters. The recognition rate of 95.4%/98.82% for numeric data and 73.44%/93.12% for alphanumeric characters were achieved for the two datasets, respectively.
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