A generalized scanner for pattern- and character-recognition studies
W. H. Highleyman, Louis A. Kamentsky · 1959
In the past 30 years, various ideas have been presented for machines which could recognize spatial patterns. With the advent of the digital computer and its use in data processing, there has been a great increase of interest in the automatic conversion of human language to language understandable by a machine. The translation to machine language of spatial symbols---pattern recognition---is important to this conversion.