Form design for high accuracy optical character recognition
Garris, M.D.
Dimmick, D.L.
Nat. Inst. of Stand. & Technol., Gaithersburg, MD;
This paper appears in: Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Volume: 18,
Issue: 6
On page(s): 653-656
ISSN: 0162-8828
References Cited: 10
CODEN: ITPIDJ
INSPEC Accession Number: 5312826
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/34.506417
Current Version Published: 2002-08-06
Abstract
To successfully apply character recognition technology most of the
forms currently hand-keyed will need to be redesigned. This paper
presents results from a comprehensive study of three versions of a
redesigned tax form. Analyses show that using separately spaced
character boxes provides superior machine readability over fields
containing combs and adjoining character boxes. It is shown that
character boxes containing two vertically stacked ovals cause writers
much more difficulty. Analyses provide proof that writer idiosyncratic
responses on forms are the major source of errors, and proper form
design can reduce these errors
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