An efficient algorithm for form structure extraction using strip projection

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1353-1368

  Chen, Jiun Lin ^a   Lee, Hsi Jian ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Field extraction; Form document processing; Line detection and verification; Strip projection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; HOUGH TRANSFORMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

FIELD EXTRACTION; FORM DOCUMENT PROCESSING; LINE DETECTION; STRIP PROJECTION;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0032163503     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00156-8     Document Type: Article

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