of other writings that figures on the marking band or deformation in the banking document. The module of handwritten areas extraction gives a rate to 95% before the improvement of areas limits, and 99% after improvement with a variation between 3% and 11%, the main cause of error is overlapping between the name of the conductor and the literal amount.

In prospect we propose to introduce modules of recognition to be able to distinguish between the various areas in overlapping. The second prospect under development is the classification of the zones automatically extracted in a data base for later uses recognition of literal, rising amounts numerical or signatures.

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