Skew detection and correction in document images based on straight-line fitting

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1871-1879

  Cao, Yang ^a   Wang, Shuhua ^b   Li, Heng ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Connected component; Document analysis; Eigen point; Skew correction; Skew detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CURVE FITTING; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; SCANNING;

SKEW DETECTION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038667885     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(03)00010-2     Document Type: Article

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