Extraction of Text Areas in Printed Document Images

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 157-165

  Duong, Jean ^a   Côte, Myriam ^a   Emptoz, Hubert ^b   Suen, Ching Y ^c  

^a Laboratoire d'Imagerie de Vision et d'Intelligence Artificielle (LIVIA)   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Entropy; Features; Text extraction

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TEXT PROCESSING;

TEXT EXTRACTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141649268     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/502208.502211     Document Type: Conference Paper

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