An Off-Line Recognizer for Hand-Written Chinese Characters

Abstract. An off-line hand-written Chinese character recognizer supporting a vocabulary of 4,616 Chinese characters, alphanumerics and punctuation symbols has been reported. Trained with a sample for each character from each of 100 writers and tested on texts of 160,000 characters written by another 200 writers, the average recognition rate is 77.2%. Two statistical language models have been investigated in this study. Their performances in terms of their capabilities in upgrading the recognition rate by 8.8% and 12.0% respectively when used as postprocessors of the recognizer.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: IDEAL
• Authors: P. K. Wong
• Keywords: Average Recognition Rate, Chinese Character Recognizer, IDEAL 2000, Intelligent Agents, Recognition Rate