OCR in Indian scripts: A survey

IETE Technical Review (Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers, India)

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 217-227

  Pati, Peeta Basa ^a   Ramakrishnan, A G ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOG TO DIGITAL CONVERSION; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MONITORING;

DECIPHERING SYSTEMS; ELECTRONIC MEDIA; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MANUSCRIPTS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 23244463627     PISSN: 02564602     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02564602.2005.11657904     Document Type: Review

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