An embedded application for degraded text recognition

Eurasip Journal on Applied Signal Processing

Volumn 2005, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 2127-2135

  Thillou, Céline ^a   Ferreira, Silvio ^a   Gosselin, Bernard ^a,b  

^a FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

^b IEEE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Error correction; Text detection; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

TEXT DETECTION; TEXT RECOGNITION;

ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EMBEDDED SYSTEMS;

EID: 28944434513     PISSN: 11108657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/ASP.2005.2127     Document Type: Conference Paper

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