Improved degraded document recognition with hybrid modeling techniques and character n-grams

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 438-441

  Brakensiek, Anja ^a   Willett, Daniel ^a   Rigoll, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION THEORY; PHOTOCOPYING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION SYSTEM; COMMERCIAL SYSTEMS; DEGRADED DOCUMENTS; ERROR RATE REDUCTION; HYBRID MODEL; LANGUAGE MODEL; N-GRAMS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 24644505035     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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