Using the Web to validate document recognition results: Experiments with business cards

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5676, Issue , 2005, Pages 17-27

  Oertel, Clemens ^a   O'Shea, Shauna ^b   Bodnar, Adam ^c   Blostein, Dorothea ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS-CARD RECOGNITION; DOCUMENT RECOGNITION; LOCAL CONTEXTUAL INFORMATION; REDUNDANT INFORMATION;

CODES (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN MATCHING; REDUNDANCY; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); WORLD WIDE WEB; XML;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 21944433588     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.588717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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