The advantage of using an HMM-based approach for faxed word recognition

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 18-36

  Elms, A J ^a,b   Procter, S ^a   Illingworth, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

^b Fujitsu Microelectronics Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hidden Markov models; OCR; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

COMMERCIAL PACKAGES; CONTEXTUAL KNOWLEDGE; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS (HMMS); PRINTED DOCUMENTS; RECOGNITION STRATEGIES; TRANSMISSION DISTORTION; WORD IMAGES; WORD RECOGNITION;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PHOTOCOPYING;

VOCABULARY CONTROL;

EID: 0004958724     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100320050003     Document Type: Article

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