Automatic identification and skew estimation of text lines in real scene images

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 791-810

  Messelodi, S ^a   Modena, C M ^a  

^a ITC IRST   (Italy)

Author keywords

Clustering; Connected components analysis; Image processing; OCR; Skew estimation; Text localization

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HEURISTIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION;

CONNECTED COMPONENT ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL CLUSTERING PROCEDURE; SKEW ESTIMATION; TEXT LOCALIZATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033133133     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(98)00108-3     Document Type: Article

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