An OCR system for printed Kannada text using two-stage multi-network classification approach employing wavelet features

Proceedings - International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, ICCIMA 2007

Volumn 2, Issue , 2008, Pages 349-355

  Sanjeev Kunte, R ^a   Sudhaker Samuel, R D ^b  

^a JSS Research Foundation   (India)

^b SRI JAYACHAMARAJENDRA COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

WAVELET FEATURES;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 41149170233     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICCIMA.2007.80     Document Type: Conference Paper

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