The coding principle and method for automatic recognition of Jia Gu Wen characters

Jia Gu Wen characters carved on turtle backs or animal bones with the featu res of drawings are the most ancient Chinese characters used about 3000 yea rs ago. This paper proposes a theory and technique for Jia Gu Wen character recognition based on coding. The key idea is to treat a Jia Hu Wen charact er as a non-directed graph. Its topological features are extracted to be th e basis of recognition. The approach proposed in this paper is also applica ble to character recognition of other languages such as Japanese, Korean, M ongolian or Tibetan. (C) 2000 Academic Press.