Text extraction from gray scale historical document images using adaptive local connectivity map

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 794-798

  Shi, Zhixin ^a   Setlur, Srirangaraj ^a   Govindaraju, Venu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

HANDWRITTEN MANUSCRIPTS; HISTORICAL HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENTS; LOCAL CONNECTIVITY MAP; LOCAL PROJECTION PROFILES;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 33750945948     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.229     Document Type: Conference Paper

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