Multilingual OCR system for South Indian scripts and English documents: An approach based on Fourier transform and principal component analysis

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 658-668

  Manjunath Aradhya, V N ^a   Hemantha Kumar, G ^a   Noushath, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

Author keywords

Document analysis; Fourier transform; Multi lingual character recognition; Principal component analysis (PCA); South Indian languages

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

DATA REPRESENTATION; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; MULTI LINGUAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 43549097616     PISSN: 09521976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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