A corpus for OCR research on mathematical expressions

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 241-259

  Garain, Utpal ^a   Chaudhuri, B B ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Database; Groundtruthing; Mathematical expressions; OCR; Performance evaluation; Statistical learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 29444460050     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-004-0140-5     Document Type: Article

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