Analysis and recognition of Asian scripts-the state of the art

This paper summarizes the research activities of the pastdecade on the recognition of handwritten scripts used inChina, Japan, and Korea. It presents the recognitionmethodologies, features explored, databases used, andclassification schemes investigated. In addition, it includes adescription of the performance of numerous recognitionsystems found in both academic and industrial researchlaboratories. Recent achievements and applications are alsopresented. A list of relevant references is attached togetherwith our remarks on this subject.

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