Extraction of text lines and text blocks on document images based on statistical modeling

International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 343-356

  Chen, Su ^a,c   Haralick, Robert M ^a   Phillips, Ihsin T ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Caere Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY;

BAYESIAN PROBABILITY; DOCUMENT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; PROBABILISTIC LINEAR DISPLACEMENT MODEL (PLDM); STATISTICAL MODELING;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0030411772     PISSN: 08999457     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-1098(199624)7:4<343::AID-IMA9>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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