Giro form reading machine

Thien Minh Ha; Dieter Niggeler; Horst Bunke; Jose Clarinval

doi:10.1117/12.200605

1 August 1995 Giro form reading machine

Thien Minh Ha, Dieter Niggeler, Horst Bunke, Jose Clarinval

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Optical Engineering, Vol. 34, Issue 8, (August 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.200605

Abstract

Although giro forms are used by many people in daily life for money remittance in Switzerland, the processing of these forms at banks and post offices is only partly automated. We describe an ongoing project for building an automatic system that is able to recognize various items printed or written on a giro form. The system comprises three main components, namely, an automatic form feeder, a camera system, and a computer. These components are connected in such a way that the system is able to process a bunch of forms without any human interactions. We present two real applications of our system in the field of payment services, which require the reading of both machine printed and handwritten information that may appear on a giro form. One particular feature of giro forms is their flexible layout, i.e., information items are located differently from one form to another, thus requiring an additional analysis step to localize them before recognition. A commercial optical character recognition (OCR) software package is used for recognition of machine-printed information, whereas handwritten information is read by our own algorithms, the details of which are presented. The system is implemented by using a client/server architecture providing a high degree of flexibility to change. Preliminary results are reported supporting our claim that the system is usable in practice.

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Thien Minh Ha, Dieter Niggeler, Horst Bunke, and Jose Clarinval "Giro form reading machine," Optical Engineering 34(8), (1 August 1995). https://doi.org/10.1117/12.200605

Published: 1 August 1995

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