Word segmentation of printed text lines based on gap clustering and special symbol detection

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 320-323

  Kim, Soo H ^a   Jeong, Chang B ^a   Kwag, Hee K ^b   Suen, Ching Y ^c  

^a Chonnam National University   (South Korea)

^b Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; CODES (SYMBOLS); NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; SIGNAL DETECTION;

GAP CLUSTERING; PRINTED TEXT LINES; SYMBOL DETECTION; WORD SEGMENTATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES; DELIMITERS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; HIGH-ACCURACY; PRINTED TEXTS; SPECIAL SYMBOLS; TEXT LINES; WORD SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33751570122     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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