Character extraction from documents using wavelet maxima

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 307-315

  Hwang, Wen L ^a   Chang, Fu ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Optical character recognition; Thresholding; Wavelet maxima

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; EDGE DETECTION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

BAYESIAN CRITERION; THRESHOLDING METHODS; VOTING PROCEDURES; WAVELET MAXIMA;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032046268     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(97)00063-2     Document Type: Article

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