A character recognition scheme based on object oriented design for Tibetan buddhist texts

Chen-Yuan Liu; Huang-Cuang Lin; Masami Kojima

doi:10.2481/dsj.6.137

Data Science Journal (Dec 2007)

A character recognition scheme based on object oriented design for Tibetan buddhist texts

Chen-Yuan Liu,
Huang-Cuang Lin,
Masami Kojima

Affiliations

Chen-Yuan Liu: Department of Information Technology and Communication, Tungnan University, No. 152, Sec. 3, PeiShen Rd., ShenKeng, Taipei, Taiwan
Huang-Cuang Lin: Department of Information Technology and Communication, Tungnan University, No. 152, Sec. 3, PeiShen Rd., ShenKeng, Taipei, Taiwan
Masami Kojima: Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2481/dsj.6.137
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 6
pp. 137 – 144

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The purpose of this study is to develop a plausible method to code and compile Buddhist texts from original Tibetan scripts into Romanized form. Using GUI (Graphical User Interface) based on Object Oriented Design, a dictionary of Tibetan characters can be easily made for Buddhist literature researchers. It is hoped that a computer system capable of highly accurate character recognition will be actively used by all scholars engaged in Buddhist literature research. In the present study, an efficient automatic recognition method for Tibetan characters is established. The result of the experiments performed is that the recognition rate achieved is 99.4% for 28,954 characters.

Published in Data Science Journal

ISSN: 1683-1470 (Online)
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Science (General)
Website: http://datascience.codata.org/

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