A Robust System for Thresholding and Skew Detection in Mixed Text/Graphics Documents

International Journal of Image and Graphics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 247-265

  Amin, Adnan ^a   Wu, S U E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connected component; document analysis; global thresholding; skew detection and correction

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; GRAPHICAL IMAGES; SKEW DETECTION; TEXTUAL DOCUMENTS;

SIGNAL DETECTION;

EID: 33750900110     PISSN: 02194678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219467805001744     Document Type: Article

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