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This paper compares a number of different statistical and syntactic recognition methods on a difficult off-line OCR dataset. The motivation for such a test is to show that syntactic methods can perform as robustly as purely statistical techniques on noisy data. The main result is that, even given a very simplistic and idiosyncratic input coding, the syntactic method performs slightly better than any of the other methods. Furthermore, it is likely that the syntactic method could significantly outperform the other methods given a less idiosyncratic input coding.
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Lucas, S., Vidal, E., Amiri, A., Hanlon, S., Amengual, J.C. (1994). A comparison of syntactic and statistical techniques for off-line OCR. In: Carrasco, R.C., Oncina, J. (eds) Grammatical Inference and Applications. ICGI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 862. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58473-0_146
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