OCR binarization and image pre-processing for searching historical documents

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 389-397

  Gupta, Maya R ^a   Jacobson, Nathaniel P ^a   Garcia, Eric K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Binarization; Halftoning; Multiresolutional; OCR

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; ONLINE SEARCHING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; QUERY LANGUAGES;

BINARIZATION; DENOISING; HALFTONING; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS;

BINARY CODES;

EID: 33750365491     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2006.04.043     Document Type: Article

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