Color segmentation for text extraction

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 271-284

  Hase, Hiroyuki ^a,e   Yoneda, Masaaki ^b   Tokai, Shogo ^a   Kato, Jien ^c   Suen, Ching Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^e NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTUAL MEASUREMENTS; AVERAGING TECHNIQUE; COLOR DOCUMENT; COLOR SEGMENTATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HISTOGRAM ANALYSIS; OVER SEGMENTATION; TEXT EXTRACTION;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

COLOR;

EID: 25844530726     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-003-0119-7     Document Type: Article

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