National
Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST Special Software 1
NIST Scoring Package Release 1.0 (SP)
Price:
$90.00 
The
NIST Scoring Package is a reference implementation of the draft
Standard Method for Evaluating the Performance of Systems Intended
to Recognize Hand-printed Characters from Image Data Scanned from Forms,
which has been submitted to ANSI X.3A.
This software
was used to score the results from the First Census Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) Systems Conference sponsored by the Bureau of the
Census and hosted by NIST.
A User's Guide
is provided which presents the concepts of scoring forms processing
systems and character classifiers, discusses the concepts and the algorithm
used for dynamic string alignment, defines the files and their formats
required as input to the Scoring Package, and documents
how the Scoring Package software is installed and invoked.
This software
release has the following features:
- supports both
form-based and character-based scoring
- applies to a
wide variety of structured forms
- can be used
in conjunction with NIST Special Databases (SD1, SD2, SD3, SD6, &
SD7)
- supports user-defined
form structures
- includes scoring
examples from forms and isolated characters
- includes an
extensive 66-page User's Guide
The NIST Scoring
Package can be used to:
- determine whether
OCR technology is economically advantageous to deploy for a specific
application
- determine which
OCR product is best suited for a specific application
- choose from
a large variety of diverse algorithmic approaches when developing
OCR systems
The NIST Scoring
Package has the following attributes and requirements:
- written in
the "C" programming language and UNIX shell languages
- developed to
run on a UNIX system running Sun OS 4.1.1
- distributed
on a 5.25 CD-ROM
- requires a
CD-ROM drive with ISO-9660 format software
- utilizes 5
megabytes of magnetic disk storage upon installation and compilation
Price:
$90.00
Special pricing
for multiple copies available. Call for details.
Please click here
to view the PDF version of Users'
Guide.
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For
more information please contact:
Standard
Reference Data Program
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr., Stop 2300
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-2310
(301) 975-2008 (VOICE) / (301) 926-0416 (FAX) / Contact Us
(E-MAIL)
The
scientific contact for the data base is:
- Michael Garris
Advanced Systems Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8940
Building 225, Room A216
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8940
(301) 975-2928
mdg@nist.gov
Key
words: Census OCR Systems Conference; Error Rates; Evaluation
Software; Optical Character Recognition; Performance Assessment.
