Indian script character recognition: A survey

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1887-1899

  Pal, U ^a   Chaudhuri, B B ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Indian script; Indian script OCR; OCR survey; Optical character recognition

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; MARKETING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

LANGUAGE SCRIPTS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR);

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 3042681884     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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