Symbol and character recognition: application to engineering drawings

: In this paper, we consider the general problem of technical document interpretation, applied to the documents of the French Telephonic Operator, France Telecom. More precisely, we focus the content of this paper on the computation of a new set of features allowing the classification of multi-oriented and multi-scaled patterns. This set of Invariant is based on the Fourier Mellin Transform. The interests of this computation rely on the excellent classification rate which is obtained with this method, and also on the possibility to use this Fourier Mellin transform within a "filtering mode", that permits to solve the well known difficult problem of connected character recognition.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: IJDAR
• Authors: Sébastien Adam, Jean-Marc Ogier, Claude Cariou, Rémy Mullot, Jacques Labiche, Joël Gardes
• Keywords: Fourier Mellin, French Telephonic Operator, IJDAR 2000, Technical Document Interpretation