Search for: [Abstract = "The proposed recognition system is applied to a database with 3000 frequently used Chinese characters, yielding a high recognition rate of 97.4% with reduced processing time of 75.31%, 73.05%, 58.27% and 40.69% when compared with recognition systems using the city block distance with deviation \(CBDD\), the minimum distance \(MD\), the compound Mahalanobis function \(CMF\) and the modified quadratic discriminant function \(MQDF\), respectively. High precision rates were also achieved."]