MergeLayouts-overcoming faulty segmentations by a comprehensive voting of commercial OCR devices

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 386-389

  Klink, Stefan ^a   Jäger, Thorsten ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HEURISTIC ALGORITHMS;

HEURISTIC SEARCH METHODS; LINE SEGMENT; PAGE LAYOUTS; SEARCH TREES; SEGMENTATION ERROR; SIMILARITY MEASURE; VOTING APPROACH; VOTING PROCESS;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 0000585301     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791805     Document Type: Conference Paper

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