Segmentation-free morphological character recognition
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A basic class of structuring-element pairs for segmentation-free character recognition via the morphological hit-or-miss transform is developed for Courier font. Both hit and miss structuring elements are sparse and they are selected so that the hit-or-miss transform can be applied across the test image without prior segmentation. Besides being able to achieve high rates of accuracy on text with touching characters, the hit-or-miss algorithm, as developed herein, is shown to be very robust with respect to the threshold level for the input gray-scale data.