A new algorithm for skew detection and correction

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1215-1229

  Kapoor, Rajiv ^a   Bagai, Deepak ^b   Kamal, T S ^c  

^a NETAJI SUBHAS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b PEC UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c SANT LONGOWAL INSTITUTE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Skew detection

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; RANDOM PROCESSES; TESTING;

AUTOMATIC MAIL ROUTING; ONLINE CAPTURING; SKEW CORRECTION; SKEW DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 23844551577     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.03.020     Document Type: Article

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