Adaptive Hindi OCR using generalized Hausdorff image comparison

ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 193-218

  Ma, Huanfeng ^a   Doermann, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Document processing; Generalized Hausdorff image comparison; Optical character recognition (OCR); Script identification

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT PROCESSING; GENERALIZED HAUSDORFF IMAGE COMPARISON; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); SCRIPT IDENTIFICATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; IMAGE PROCESSING; PERSONNEL TRAINING; PRODUCT DESIGN; STATISTICAL METHODS;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 33745167311     PISSN: 15300226     EISSN: 15300226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/979872.979875     Document Type: Article

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