Knowledge-based baseline detection and optimal thresholding for words segmentation in efficient pre-processing of handwritten Arabic text

Proceedings - International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, ITNG 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1158-1159

  Alkhateeb, Jawad H ^a   Ren, Jinchang ^a   Ipson, Stan S ^a   Jiang, Jianmin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE-BASED BASELINE DETECTION; WORDS SEGMENTATION;

KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORD PROCESSING;

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS;

EID: 44049085363     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITNG.2008.71     Document Type: Conference Paper

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