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In this paper, the automatic recognition of broken and blurred, multifont typewritten digits in forms will be addressed. The classification, which is based on the utilization of a global feature, is divided in two phases: first, a minimum distance method (1-NN) is applied to provide a global classification of the patterns in a form; second, the patterns in the form previously classified are used to validate, or reject and reclassify them, on the basis of the mean distance to the predefined classes. In this way, a classification accuracy rate of 99.42% has been achieved.
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Rodriguez, C., Muguerza, J., Navarro, M., Zárate, A., Mar'in, J.I., Pérez, J.M. (1998). A hierarchical classifier for multifont digits. In: Amin, A., Dori, D., Pudil, P., Freeman, H. (eds) Advances in Pattern Recognition. SSPR /SPR 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1451. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0033322
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