Optical Character Recognition (Wiley Series in Microwave and Optical Engineering) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Shunji Mori, Hirobumi Nishida, Hiromitsu Yamada
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0471308196
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.399
EAN: 9780471308195
ASIN: 0471308196
Publication Date: April 13, 1999
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Product Description
As optical character recognition (OCR) begins to find applications ranging from store checkout scanners to money-changing machines and postal system automation, it has become one of the most dynamic areas in information science today. Yet few volumes explore this data-oriented process without relying heavily on mathematical background reading.
Now, Shunji Mori, Hirobumi Nishida, and Hiromitsu Yamada, among the field's most respected researchers since its inception, present this self-contained, clearly written guidebook to OCR--the first comprehensive treatment of the preprocessing, feature-extraction, and systematic description-matching stages of the OCR process. Including a wealth of original research material available here for the first time, this book is both an ideal professional reference source and an excellent entry point for course work in the subject.
Key features of Optical Character Recognition:
* Theoretical framework based on functional analysis--not previously available in a detailed, English-language version
* Extensive explanation of preprocessing theory, including blurring and sampling, normalization, thinning, and binary and gray-scale morphology
* Intensive section on feature extraction, exploring linear methods, structure analysis, and algebraic description
* Original work on systematic shape description as a prerequisite to matching
* Original material on elastic matching, including image recognition of characters and objects
* Requires only the standard undergraduate requisites of algebra, linear algebra, and advanced calculus
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 Anyone have this book to pdf? March 30, 2006
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
I need this book..but so expensive..anyone have this book to pdf?
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Good Book, Poor English June 30, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is better than it's reviews. If you're a college student, or professor interested in OCR, this book is just for you. It is, however, a book aimed at people who have degrees in computer science, or are studying to get their degrees. So don't approach it thinking it's a novel; it's a technical book! It presents a great overview of the most common approaches to OCR.The only real flaw in it, and the reason why I only give it three stars, is that it was written by three people who aren't native english speakers. As long as you're fluent in the language of mathematics, that's not a big deal. If, however, your linear algebra knowledge isn't up to par, you may find some of the explanations rather cryptic.
 Certainly not a book for beginners November 29, 2001
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
There are a lot of hard math and comparisons among different OCR methods, but there is almost nothing about software implementation and algorithms. For example, the book does not talk about how to apply the integration formulas to integrate over the discrete image pixels.
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