Segmentation of off-line cursive handwriting using linear programming

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 1825-1833

  Yanikoglu, Berrin ^a   Sandon, Peter A ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IBM   (United States)

Author keywords

Off line cursive handwriting; Recognition OCR; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LINEAR PROGRAMMING;

OFF-LINE CURSIVE HANDWRITING;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032312117     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00081-8     Document Type: Article

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