An approach to extracting the target text line from a document image captured by a pen scanner

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 76-80

  Bai, Zhen Long ^a   Huo, Qiang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINARY IMAGES; ENGINES; SCANNING;

CONNECTED COMPONENT; DOCUMENT IMAGES; GEOMETRIC FEATURE; NEAREST NEIGHBORS; NEW APPROACHES; OCR ENGINES; SCORE FUNCTION; TEXT LINES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 10044255810     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227631     Document Type: Conference Paper

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