A SYSTEM FOR ON-LINE RECOGNITION OF CHINESE CHARACTERS

The target of this recognition system is the set of handwritten Chinese characters input from tablet devices with stroke-sequence and stroke-count being free but within the constraint of normal writing.

A formalism based upon an initial stroke-sequence decision tree and position matching has been developed for recognizing handwritten Chinese characters. This formalism has the advantages of using the features of strokes, stroke-sequence, and geometric relations but avoids the disadvantages caused by the instability of all of the above features. With extensive training, it can be proven that this formalism may provide a very promising result even in handling erroneous writing such as missing a stroke, wrong writing sequence etc.