A Fourier descriptor based character recognition engine implemented under the gamera open-source document processing framework

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5676, Issue , 2005, Pages 111-118

  Hopkins, Jared ^a   Andersen, Tim ^a  

^a Boise State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Fourier descriptor; Open source software; Optical character recognition

Indexed keywords

BI-TONAL IMAGES; FOURIER DESCRIPTOR; GAMERA FRAMEWORK; OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE;

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ENGINES; FOURIER OPTICS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 21944444399     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.589218     Document Type: Conference Paper

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