Automatic detection of change in address blocks for reply forms processing

Keerambur Ramaswami Karthick; Stephen Marshall; Alison J. Gray; United Kingdom's Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Program (Funder)

Automatic detection of change in address blocks for reply forms processing

Keerambur Ramaswami Karthick, Stephen Marshall, Alison J. Gray, United Kingdom's Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Program (Funder)

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In this paper, an automatic method to detect the presence of on-line erasures/scribbles/corrections/over-writing in the address block of various types of subscription and utility payment forms is presented. The proposed approach employs bottom-up segmentation of the address block. Heuristic rules based on structural features are used to automate the detection process. The algorithm is applied on a large dataset of 5,780 real world document forms of 200 dots per inch resolution. The proposed algorithm performs well with an average processing time of 108 milliseconds per document with a detection accuracy of 98.96%.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of IAENG International Conference on Imaging Engineering
Place of Publication	Hong Kong
Publisher	International Association of Engineers
Pages	650-654
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Print)	9789889867188
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2008 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: 19 Mar 2008 → 21 Mar 2008 http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2008/

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Conference	International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2008
Abbreviated title	IMECS 2008
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	19/03/08 → 21/03/08
Internet address	http://www.iaeng.org/IMECS2008/

Keywords

offline scribble detection
document image analysis
document form processing
address correction detection

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Karthick, KR, Marshall, S , Gray, AJ & United Kingdom's Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Program (Funder) 2008, Automatic detection of change in address blocks for reply forms processing. in Proceedings of IAENG International Conference on Imaging Engineering. International Association of Engineers, Hong Kong, pp. 650-654, International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2008, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 19/03/08.

Automatic detection of change in address blocks for reply forms processing. / Karthick, Keerambur Ramaswami; Marshall, Stephen ; Gray, Alison J. et al.
Proceedings of IAENG International Conference on Imaging Engineering. Hong Kong: International Association of Engineers, 2008. p. 650-654.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book

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