A robust page segmentation method for Persian/Arabic documents

WSEAS Transactions on Computers

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 1692-1698

  Shirali Shahreza, M Hassan ^a   Shirali Shahreza, Sajad ^b  

^a YAZD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Image analysis; OCR; Page segmentation; Pattern recognition; Persian Arabic document

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; OFFICE AUTOMATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ENGLISH LANGUAGE; PERSIAN/ARABIC DOCUMENT; ROBUST PAGE SEGMENTATION METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33645117321     PISSN: 11092750     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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