Robust OCR of degraded documents

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 357-361

  Natarajan, Premkumar ^a   Bazzi, Issam ^a   Lu, Zhidong ^a   Makhoul, John ^a   Scwhartz, Richard ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Degraded documents; HMMs; OCR

Indexed keywords

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION;

ADAPTATION; CHARACTER ERROR RATES; CONSTRAINED OPTIMI-ZATION PROBLEMS; DEGRADED DOCUMENTS; HMMS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY; UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 0005317452     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791798     Document Type: Conference Paper

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