An omnifont open-vocabulary OCR system for English and Arabic

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 495-504

  Bazzi, Issam ^a   Schwartz, Richard ^a   Makhoul, John ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic OCR; Hidden Markov Models; Language modeling; Omnifont OCR; Optical character recognition; Segmentation free recognition; Speech recognition

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SPEECH RECOGNITION; VOCABULARY CONTROL;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LANGUAGE MODELING; SEGMENTATION FREE RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032677119     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.771314     Document Type: Article

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