Shortest Path Segmentation: A Method For Training a Neural Network to Recognize Character Strings

  • Chris J.C. Burges ,
  • O. Matan ,
  • Y. Le Cun ,
  • J.S. Denker ,
  • L.D. Jackel ,
  • C.E. Stenard ,
  • C.R. Nohl ,
  • J.I. Ben

IJCNN Conference Proceedings |

We describe a method which combines dynamic programming and a neural net recognizer for segmenting and recognizing character strings. The method selects the optimal consistent combination of cuts from a set of candidate cuts generated using heuristics.