A framework of combining numeric string recognizers

Although promising results on the combination of character recognizers have been reported recently, the combination strategies can not be readily applied to the recognition of character strings due to m-n correspondence problems caused by segmentation errors. In this paper, we propose a new paradigm of combining multiple string recognizers and contribute a generic framework for off-line combination. We designed and implemented a graph based off-line combination system, StrCombo, which has achieved a substantial improvement over any one of the individual recognizers in a real-life application. This open combination system provides the possibility of further improving the performance of string recognizers when new recognizers and combination rules are available.

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