Off-line unconstrained handwritten word recognition

The authors describe their system for writer independent, off-line unconstrained handwritten word recognition. First, they present a new method to automatically determine the parameters of Gabor filters to extract features from slant and tilt corrected images. An algorithm is also developed to translate 2D images to 1D domain. Finally, they propose a modified dynamic programming method with fuzzy inference to recognize words. Their initial experiments have shown encouraging results.