Retrieving information from document images: Problems and solutions

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 46-55

  Chang, Fu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Binarization; Document image analysis; Error tolerant full text search; Information retrieval; Multiple constraint problem

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT LAYOUT ANALYSIS; FULL-TEXT SEARCH; MACHINE RECOGNITION; MULTIPLE CONSTRAINT; PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS; SEARCHING TECHNIQUES;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER VISION;

EID: 0742302777     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00013573     Document Type: Article

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