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Designing a new standard structure for improving automatic processing of Persian handwritten bank cheques

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Millions of handwritten bank cheques are processed manually every day in banks and other financial institutions all over the world. Substitution of manual cheque processing with automatic cheque reader system saves time and the cost of processing. In the recent years, systems such as A2iA have been made in order to automate processing of Latin cheques. Normally, these systems are based on the standard structures of cheques such as Check 21 in the USA or Check 006 in Canada. There are major problems in traditional (currently used) Persian bank cheques, which yield low accuracy and computational cost in their automatic processing. In this paper, in order to solve these problems, a novel structure for Persian handwritten bank cheques is presented. Importance and supremacy of this new structure for Persian handwritten bank cheques is shown by conducting several experiments on our created database of cheques based on the new structure. The created database includes 500 handwritten bank cheques based on the presented structure. Experimental results verify the usefulness and importance of the new structure in automatic processing of Persian handwritten bank cheques which provides a standard guideline for automatic processing of Persian handwritten bank cheques comparable to Check 21 or Check 006.

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We would like to thank those participants who filled the cheques for our two databases and thank the bank that supported us for collecting of traditional Persian bank cheques.

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  1. Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Birjand, PO Box 97175-615, Birjand, Iran

    Javad Sadri

  2. McGill Center for Bioinformatics, School of Computer Science, McGill University, Room: 3140, Trottier Building, 3630 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B2, Canada

    Javad Sadri

  3. Faculty of Engineering, Department of Computer and IT Engineering, Payame Noor University (Central Branch of Tehran), Tehran, Iran

    Mohammad J. Jalili

  4. Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Semnan, Semnan, Iran

    Younes Akbari

  5. Faculty of New Sciences and Technologies, Department of Applied Mathematics, Graduate University of Advanced Technology, Kerman, Iran

    Atefeh Foroozandeh

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Sadri, J., Jalili, M.J., Akbari, Y. et al. Designing a new standard structure for improving automatic processing of Persian handwritten bank cheques. Pattern Anal Applic 17, 849–862 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-014-0385-7

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