Separation of overlapping text from graphics

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

Volumn 2001-January, Issue , 2001, Pages 44-48

  Cao, Ruini ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; FEATURE LINES; SHORT SEGMENTS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33746630185     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2001.953752     Document Type: Conference Paper

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