Correcting OCR text by association with historical datasets

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5010, Issue , 2003, Pages 84-93

  Hauser, Susan ^a   Schlaifer, Jonathan ^a   Sabir, Tehseen ^a   Demner Fushman, Dina ^a   Thoma, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

OCR correction; Partial string matching; Performance improvement

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; SCANNING;

PARTIAL STRING MATCHING;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038732554     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476046     Document Type: Conference Paper

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