Word-level optical font recognition using typographical features

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 541-561

  Kim, Soo H ^a   Kwag, Hee K ^b   Suen, Ching Y ^c  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b DongBang Media Co Ltd   (South Korea)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Font attributes; Font style; Hierarchical classifier; Optical font recognition; Point size; Script; Typeface; Typographical features

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA PROCESSING; ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT IDENTIFICATION SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

FONT ATTRIBUTES; FONT RECOGNITION; FONT STYLES; HIERARCHIAL CLASSIFIERS; POINT SIZES; TYPEFACES; TYPOGRAPHICAL FEATURES;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 3142779852     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001404003307     Document Type: Article

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