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A statistical approach to the generation of a database for evaluating OCR software

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In this paper we consider a statistical approach to augment a limited database of groundtruth documents for use in evaluation of optical character recognition software. A modified moving-blocks bootstrap procedure is used to construct surrogate documents for this purpose which prove to serve effectively and, in some regards, indistinguishably from groundtruth. The proposed method is validated through a rigorous statistical procedure.

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  1. US Army Research Laboratory, ATTN: AMSRL-CI-CT, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5067, USA; e-mail: {fsbrn,annb}@arl.army.mil , , , , , , US

    F.S. Brundick & Ann E.M. Brodeen

  2. University of Maryland, Maryland, USA; e-mail: mtaylor@arl.army.mil , , , , , , US

    Malcolm S. Taylor

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  1. F.S. Brundick
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Received: March 30, 2000 / Revised: September 14, 2001

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Brundick, F., Brodeen, A. & Taylor, M. A statistical approach to the generation of a database for evaluating OCR software. IJDAR 4, 170–176 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/s100320200067

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