Bank cheques (checks) are still widely used all over the world for financial transactions.
Huge volumes of handwritten bank cheques are processed manually every day in …

In the US and many other countries, bank checks are preprinted with the account number
and the check number in special ink and format; as such, these two numeric fields can be …

In spite of rapid evolution of electronic techniques, a number of large-scale applications
continue to rely on the use of paper as the dominant medium. This is especially true for …

A bankcheck reading system using cross validation of both the legal and the courtesy
amounts is presented in this paper. Some of the challenges posed by the task are (i) …

This paper describes a method to extract the magnetic ink characters (MICR E-13B font)
printed on bank-checks for the purpose of using OCR as supporting MICR. In the case of …

This paper presents a technique for extracting the user-entered information from bankcheck
images based on a layout-driven item extraction method. The baselines of checks are …

This paper describes a prototype for Brazilian bankcheck recognition. The description is
divided into three topics: bankcheck information extraction, digit amount recognition and …

A novel approach to extract data from check images is proposed based on the determination
of baselines of checks, a priori information about the positions of data on checks, and a …

We describe an implemented system which reads amounts on French checks images. This
system is made of two modules which recognize independently the courtesy and the legal …

A novel approach is proposed for the extraction of legal and courtesy amounts and date from
cheque images based on the structural description of cheques. A method for the …