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A post-processor for Gurmukhi OCR

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A post-processing system for OCR of Gurmukhi script has been developed. Statistical information of Punjabi language syllable combinations, corpora look-up and certain heuristics based on Punjabi grammar rules have been combined to design the post-processor. An improvement of 3% in recognition rate, from 94.35% to 97.34%, has been reported on clean images using the post-processing techniques.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, 147 004, Patiala, India

    G. S. Lehal

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Punjabi University, 147 002, Patiala, India

    Chandan Singh

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Lehal, G.S., Singh, C. A post-processor for Gurmukhi OCR. Sadhana 27, 99–111 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02703315

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