Retrieving poorly degraded OCR documents

International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-26

  Fataicha, Youssef ^a,b,c   Cheriet, Mohamed ^a   Nie, J Y ^b   Suen, C Y ^c  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

Document processing; Error grams; Information retrieval (IR); Optical character recognition (OCR); Query expansion

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645537371     PISSN: 14332833     EISSN: 14332825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10032-005-0147-6     Document Type: Article

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