Segmentation of touching symbols for OCR of printed mathematical expressions: An approach based on multifactorial analysis

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 177-181

  Garain, Utpal ^a   Chaudhuri, B B ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

MULTIFACTORIAL ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE ALGORITHM; TOUCHING CHARACTERS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33846102669     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.212     Document Type: Conference Paper

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