Text extraction from gray scale document images using edge information

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 302-306

  Yuan, Q ^a   Tan, C L ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION USE; NEWSPRINT;

CONNECTED COMPONENT; DOCUMENT IMAGES; EDGE INFORMATION; EFFICIENT COMPUTATION; FEATURE-BASED; LINE SEGMENT; REDUCED MEMORY; TEXT EXTRACTION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0344092921     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953803     Document Type: Conference Paper

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