Script-independent, hmm-based text line finding for ocr

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 551-554

  Lu, Zhidong ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

HMM-BASED; RECOGNITION ERROR; SCRIPT-INDEPENDENT; TEXT LINES; UNSUPERVISED TRAINING;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0005313207     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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