Cooperative text and line-art extraction from a topographic map

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 471-474

  Li, Luyang ^a   Nagy, George ^b   Samal, Ashok ^c   Seth, Sharad ^c   Xu, Yihong ^d  

^a Panasonic Information and Networking Laboratories   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^d HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CONNECTED COMPONENT; LINE-ART; POLYLINES; TOPOGRAPHIC MAP; VECTORIZATION;

MAPS;

EID: 34047217931     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791826     Document Type: Conference Paper

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