Abstract
An experimental printed-page reader that is easy to adapt to various languages isdescribed. Changing the target language may involve simultaneous changes in symbolsets, typefaces, sizes of text, page layouts, linguistic contexts, and imaging defects.Our strategy has been to isolate the effects of these sources of variation within separate,independent engineering subsystems. In this way, we have been able to construct,with a minimum of manual effort, classifiers for arbitrary combinations...

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