Classification of machine-printed and handwritten texts using character block layout variance

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1275-1284

  Fan, Kuo Chin ^a   Wang, Liang Shen ^a   Tu, Yin Tien ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Character block layout variance; Document analysis; Optical character recognition; Projection profile

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

CHARACTER BLOCK LAYOUT VARIANCE; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; PROJECTION PROFILE;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032164305     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(97)00143-X     Document Type: Article

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