July 1987 - Vol. 30 No. 7
Features
Recently developed word processing software can correctly format the cursive, interacting letters of the Arabic script. Moreover, new layout procedures can automatically…
Spanish is a language with very precise and regular orthographic rules. A syllabication algorithm strictly based on syntactic analysis, not requiring any semantic…
The tea-leaf reader algorithm: an efficient implementation of CRC-16 and CRC-32
The tea-leaf reader CRC algorithms are error-detection algorithms that use a look-ahead table to increase execution speed.
The quadcode and its arithmetic
The quadcode is a hierarchical data structure for describing digital images. It has the following properties: (1) straightforward representation of dimension, size, and…
Adjacency detection using quadcodes
A method is presented for determining whether two given regions are adjacent, and for finding all the neighbors of different sizes for a given region. Regions are defined…