A general framework for multi-character segmentation and its application in recognizing multilingual Asian documents

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5296, Issue , 2004, Pages 147-154

  Wen, Di ^a   Ding, Xiaoqing ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Character Segmentation; Optical Character Recognition

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LINGUISTICS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY;

CHARACTER PATTERNS; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; COOPERATIVE SYSTEMS; MULTILINGUAL DOCUMENTS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 1942449307     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.528951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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