Retrieval of machine-printed Latin documents through Word Shape Coding

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1799-1809

  Lu, Shijian ^a   Tan, Chew Lim ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Document image analysis; Language identification; Multilingual document retrieval; Word shape coding

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CODING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; VECTORS;

DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANGUAGE IDENTIFICATION; MULTILINGUAL DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL; SHAPE CODES; SHAPE FEATURES; WORD SHAPE CODING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 38349102532     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.10.017     Document Type: Article

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