A corpus for comparative evaluation of OCR software and postcorrection techniques

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 162-166

  Mihov, Stoyan ^a   Schulz, Klaus U ^b   Ringlstetter, Christoph ^b   Dojchinova, Veselka ^a   Nakova, Vanja ^a   Kalpakchieva, Kristina ^a   Gerasimov, Ognjan ^a   Gotscharek, Annette ^b   Gercke, Claudia ^b  

^a BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Comparative evaluation; Cyrillic documents; Ground truth data; Meta data; Mixed alphabet documents; Optical character recognition; Postcorrection of OCR results; Public corpora

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE EVALUATION; CYRILLIC DOCUMENTS; IMAGE FILES; MIXED ALPHABET DOCUMENTS; POSTCORRECTION TECHNIQUES; PUBLIC CORPORA;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; METADATA; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947382234     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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