Text string extraction from images of colour-printed documents

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 143, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 210-216

  Suen, H M ^a   Wang, J F ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Binary image edge representation; Character recognition; Text block identification

Indexed keywords

COLOR PRINTING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS;

BINARY IMAGE; COLOUR PRINTED DOCUMENTS; PAGE SEGMENTATION; TEXT STRING EXTRACTION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0030206124     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:19960325     Document Type: Article

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