Processing of binary images of handwritten text documents

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 1161-1177

  Abuhaiba, Ibrahim S I ^a   Holt, Murray J J ^b   Datta, Sekharjit ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Blobs; Blotting; Cost matrix; Distance transform; Handwritten text; Main stroke; Printed text; Secondary stroke; Shortest spanning tree; Straight line approximation; Thinning

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; GRAPH THEORY;

BINARY IMAGES; BLOBS; BLOTTING; DISTANCE TRANSFORM; HANDWRITTEN TEXT DOCUMENTS; MAIN STROKE; PRINTED TEXT; SECONDARY STROKE; STRAIGHT LINE APPROXIMATION; THINNING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030194111     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00142-5     Document Type: Article

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