Text identification for document image analysis using a neural network

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 16, Issue 12-13, 1998, Pages 879-896

  Strouthopoulos, C ^a   Papamarkos, N ^a  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Block classification; Document segmentation; Neural network classifiers; Page layout analysis

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS;

BLOCK CLASSIFICATION METHOD; KOHONEN SELF-ORGANIZED FEATURE MAP (SOFM); PAGE LAYOUT ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYZER (PCA);

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032138753     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0262-8856(98)00055-9     Document Type: Article

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