A segmentation-free approach to recognise printed Sinhala script using linear symmetry

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2081-2089

  Premaratne, H L ^a,b   Bigun, J ^a  

^a HALMSTAD UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Dynamic threshold; Linear symmetry; Optical character recognition; Skew correction

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; NEURAL NETWORKS; PRINTING; VECTORS;

BRAHMI SINHALA SCRIPT; DYNAMIIC THRESHOLD; LINEAR SYMMETRY; PRINTED CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SKEW CORRECTION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 4544367323     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2004.01.021     Document Type: Article

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