A robust algorithm for separation of Chinese characters from line drawings

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 753-761

  Chen, Liang Hua ^a   Wang, Jiing Yuh ^b   Liao, Hong Yuan ^c   Fan, Kuo Chin ^b  

^a FU JEN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Document image analysis; Map and drawing understanding; Text graphics separation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

MAP AND DRAWING UNDERSTANDING; TEXT-GRAPHICS SEPARATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030412334     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0262-8856(96)01081-5     Document Type: Article

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