An efficient pre-processing of mixed-content document images for OCR systems

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 3, Issue , 1996, Pages 778-782

  Parodi, Pietro ^a   Piccioli, Giulia ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BOTTOM-UP FASHION; DEFAULT VALUES; DIGITAL FORMAT; DOCUMENT IMAGES; HUMAN INTERVENTION; NON-TEXT REGIONS; NOVEL TECHNIQUES; PRE-PROCESSING;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 35048895426     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.547274     Document Type: Conference Paper

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