Integrated text and line-art extraction from a topographic map

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 177-185

  Li, Luyang ^a   Nagy, George ^b   Samal, Ashok ^c   Seth, Sharad ^c   Xu, Yihong ^d  

^a Panasonic Information and Networking Laboratories   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Character recognition; Cooperative processing; Form processing; Geographic information systems; Graphics recognition; Interactive processing; Map processing; Text graphics segmentation

Indexed keywords

EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; MAPS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; USER INTERFACES;

ADAPTATION; AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; COOPERATIVE PROCESSING; EVALUATION EXPERIMENTS; FORM PROCESSING; GRAPHICS RECOGNITION; TEXT STRING; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0004042648     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100320050004     Document Type: Article

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