Stroke extraction as pre-processing step to improve thinning results of Chinese characters

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 817-825

  He, Rong ^a   Yan, Hong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION;

SKELETONIZATION; STROKE EXTRACTION; THINNING METHOD;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034245691     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(00)00039-8     Document Type: Article

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