Skew angle estimation in document processing using Cohen's class distributions

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 11-13, 1999, Pages 1305-1311

  Kavallieratou, E ^a   Fakotakis, N ^a   Kokkinakis, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

COHEN'S CLASS DISTRIBUTIONS; DOCUMENT PROCESSING; SKEW ANGLE ESTIMATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033220781     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00097-5     Document Type: Article

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