Optical font recognition using typographical features

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 877-882

  Zramdini, Abdelwahab ^a   Ingold, Rolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b A2i SA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Font models; Multivariate bayesian classifier; OCR; Optical font recognition; Typographical features

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE QUALITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTIVARIATE BAYESIAN CLASSIFIER; OPTICAL FONT RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032138420     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.709616     Document Type: Article

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