2-D EAG Method for the Recognition of Hand-Printed Chinese Characters

A method,called Two-Dimensional Extended Attribute Grammars(2-D EAGs) for the recognition of hand-printed Chinese characters is presented.This method uses directly two dimensional information,and provides a scheme for dealing with various kinds of specific cases in a uniform way.In this method,components are drawn in guided and redundant way and reductions are made level by leve just in accordance with the component combination relations of Chinese characters.The method provids also polysemous grammars,coexisting grammars and structure inferrings whih constrain redundant recognition by comparison among similar characters of components and greatly increase the tolerance ability to distortion.