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Optical Character Recognition (OCR) has been deployed in the past in different application areas such as automatic transcription and indexing of document images, reading aid for the visually impaired persons, postal automation etc. However, the performance in many cases has not been impressive due to the fact that character segmentation is itself an error-prone and difficult operation, which leads to the poor performance of the system due to erroneous segmentation of characters. Hence, for many applications (like document indexing, Postal automation) where full character-wise transcription is not required, word recognition is the preferred method these days. This article investigates recognition of Bengali place names as word images using 5 different traditional architectures. Experiments on word images (of Bengali place names) from 608 classes were conducted. Encouraging results were obtained in all instances.
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Prasad, P.K., Banerjee, P., Chanda, S., Pal, U. (2021). Bengali Place Name Recognition - Comparative Analysis Using Different CNN Architectures. In: Singh, S.K., Roy, P., Raman, B., Nagabhushan, P. (eds) Computer Vision and Image Processing. CVIP 2020. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1377. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-1092-9_29
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