Pre-processing methods for handwritten Arabic documents

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 267-271

  Farooq, Faisal ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a   Perrone, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^b IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; RELIABILITY;

ARABIC DOCUMENTS; AUTOMATIC RECOGNITION; BASELINE DETECTION; TEXT NORMALIZATION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33645147705     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.191     Document Type: Conference Paper

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