Development of Template-Free Form Recognition System

We present a new form recognition technique. In our work, we were especially interested in developing a 'template-free' form recognition technique that extracts and recognizes target characters without pre-defined layout knowledge (form-template). We also attempted to overcome well known difficulties in developing template-free form recognition techniques, i.e., extracting items from noisy form images and ambiguous alignment layout forms. We were able to use a hypothesis testing approach to successfully extract such items from such form images.