Text page recognition using Grey-level features and hidden Markov models

Abstract

This paper presents an approach to text recognition which avoids the problems of thresholding and segmentation by working directly on the grey-level image recognizing an entire word at the time. For each word a sequence of grey-level feature vectors is extracted. Hidden Markov models are used to describe the single characters and the sequence of feature vectors is matched against all possible combinations of models using dynamic programming.