Identification of text-only areas in mixed-type documents

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 387-401

  Strouthopoulos, Charalampos ^b   Papamarkos, Nikos ^a   Chamzas, Christodoulos ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Document image analysis; OCR; Page layout analysis; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER AIDED MANUFACTURING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PERFORMANCE;

DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE STORAGE SYSTEMS; PAGE LAYOUT ANALYSIS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031199314     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0952-1976(97)00016-x     Document Type: Article

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