Detection and location of multicharacter sequences in lines of imaged text

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 37-49

  Chen, Francine R ^a   Bloomberg, Dan S ^a   Wilcox, Lynn D ^a  

^a PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

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EID: 0006012455     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.228768     Document Type: Article

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