The design of a logic for the recognition of printed characters by simulation

"Pattern recognition" computers as models for form perception.

“…A relatively early program (Greanias, Hoppel, Kloomok, & Osborne, 1957) divided the matrix into vertical strips, or columns, and made counts of filled cells within these columns, much as is done by some of the machines. It also made some assessment of relations between topmost points in different columns giving something weakly related to slope.…”