Document image improvement for OCR as a classification problem

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5010, Issue , 2003, Pages 73-83

  Summers, Kristen ^a  

^a Vredenburg   (United States)

Author keywords

Image enhancement; Machine learning; OCR; Optical character recognition

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICS;

DOCUMENT IMAGES;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038732561     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.476023     Document Type: Conference Paper

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