Partitioning of the degradation space for OCR training

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6067, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Barney Smith, Elisa H ^a   Andersen, Tim ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Character degradations; Character homogeneity; Clustering; OCR training

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; PHOTODEGRADATION; SCANNING;

CHARACTER DEGRADATIONS; CHARACTER HOMOGENEITY; CLUSTERING; OCR TRAINING;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33645659273     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.641229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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