Extraction of text words in document images based on a statistical characterization

Journal of Electronic Imaging

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 25-36

  Chen, Su ^a   Haralick, Robert M ^a   Phillips, Ihsin T ^b  

^a University of Washington   (United States)

^b SEATTLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 1542475940     PISSN: 10179909     EISSN: 1560229X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.227706     Document Type: Article

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