A Robust Algorithm for Text String Separation from Mixed Text/Graphics Images

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 910-918

  Fletcher, Lloyd Alan ^a   Kasturi, Rangachar ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connected component analysis; document analysis; image processing; image segmentation; image understanding; text and graphics separation; text recognition

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING--ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

DOCUMENT HANDLING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MIXED TEXT/GRAPHICS IMAGES; TEXT PROCESSING; TEXT STRING SEPARATION;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 0024103852     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.9112     Document Type: Article

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