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This paper introduces the object-oriented character recognition engine AQUIRE which was originally designed as a general pattern-classifier under the academic aspects of object- orientation and parallelism together with low space and time complexity. When industry expressed interest in using AQUIRE to provide pen-based computers with a powerful character- recognition engine, AQUIRE was revised to meet the commercial requirements. Together with a brief discussion of some special pen-related problems, this paper contains the theoretical background for the recognition mechanism and a description of the methods used to perform a high quality and high speed recognition-process with a minimum of executable code. The proposed method has been implemented on an INFOS NotePad 386-SX pen-computer and on the associative processor AM3 developed within the PROMETHEUS project at the Department for Technical Computer Sciences at J.W.Goethe-University. The acceleration of the recognition mechanism by using the associative type of parallelism will be shown.
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Klauer, B., Waldschmidt, K., Heinrich, R. (1993). An Object-Oriented Character Recognition Engine. In: Spies, P.P. (eds) Europäischer Informatik Kongreß Architektur von Rechensystemen Euro-ARCH ’93. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78565-8_17
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