Using curvature features in a multiclassifier OCR system

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 213-224

  Gatos, Basilios ^a,b   Papamarkos, Nikos ^a   Chamzas, Christodoulos ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Feature extraction; Multiple classifiers; Optical character recognition; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION EQUIPMENT; DATA PROCESSING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; VECTORS;

CURVATURE FEATURES; MULTICLASSIFIER TECHNIQUE;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031123691     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0952-1976(97)00002-x     Document Type: Article

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