A generic method for determining up/down orientation of text in roman and non-roman scripts

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 2114-2131

  Aradhye, Hrishikesh B ^a  

^a SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Document layout analysis; Multilingual analysis; OCR; Page orientation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TELLER MACHINES; FACSIMILE; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PHOTOGRAPHY; TEXT PROCESSING;

AUTOMATED MAIL PROCESSING; DOCUMENT LAYOUT ANALYSIS; MULTILINGUAL ANALYSIS; PAGE ORIENTATION;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 24044503372     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.12.011     Document Type: Article

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