Estimation of skew angles for scanned documents based on piecewise covering by parallelograms

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 443-455

  Chou, Chien Hsing ^a   Chu, Shih Yu ^a   Chang, Fu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Document image analysis; Piecewise covering; Skew angle; Skew angle estimation

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; PIECEWISE COVERING; SKEW ANGLE ESTIMATIONS; SKEW ANGLES;

ANGLE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 33750312659     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2005.10.030     Document Type: Article

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