The OCRopus open source OCR system

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6815, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Breuel, Thomas M ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TEXT PROCESSING;

COMMERCIAL DOCUMENT CONVERSIONS; RESEARCH COMMUNITY; TEXT LINE RECOGNITION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 41149127674     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.783598     Document Type: Conference Paper

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