Prototype extraction and adaptive OCR

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1280-1296

  Xu, Yihong ^a  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN MATCHING;

ADAPTIVE CLASSIFICATION; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TEXT READER;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0033311569     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.817408     Document Type: Article

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