The same is not the same - Postcorrection of alphabet confusion errors in mixed-alphabet OCR recognition

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

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 406-410

  Ringlstetter, Christoph ^a   Schulz, Klaus U ^a   Mihov, Stoyan ^b   Louka, Katerina ^c  

^a CIS ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c BULGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Free corpora for evaluation; Mixed alphabets; Optical character recognition; Postcorrection methods; Reduction of error rates

Indexed keywords

FREE CORPORA FOR EVALUATION; MIXED ALPHABETS; POSTCORRECTION METHODS; REDUCTION OF ERROR RATES;

ALGORITHMS; BIT ERROR RATE; CHARACTER SETS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ERROR CORRECTION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 33947418510     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2005.240     Document Type: Conference Paper

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