CARVALHO, J. V.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/4900179936508405; CARVALHO, Juliano Varella de.
Resumo:
In spite of the growing spread of information technologies based on electronic
media, hand-printed information, such as forms, memoranda, letters, requirements, etc.
is still abound. The conversion process of these stored forms to electronic media has
been onerous and unproductive, mainly due to the involvement of unprepared
personnel. This paper presents the results of a pioneer application of the data mining
technology known as association rules for the automatic recognition of hand-printed
characters.
Besides analysing the results obtained with this technique, we also compare
our system for automatic recognition of hand-printed characters with systems that use
other tecnologies, as syntactic analysis and neural nets.