A weighted finite-state framework for correcting errors in natural scene OCR

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 889-893

  Beaufort, Richard ^a   Mancas Thillou, Céline ^b  

^a Multitel   (Belgium)

^b FACULTÉ POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; ERRORS;

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; NATURAL SCENES;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 38749094585     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4377043     Document Type: Conference Paper

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