Robust page segmentation based on smearing and error correction unifying top-down and bottom-up approaches

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 392-396

  Cao, Huaigu ^a,b   Prasad, Rohit ^a   Natarajan, Prem ^a   MacRostie, Ehry ^a  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR CORRECTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; LINGUISTICS; QUERY LANGUAGES;

BOTTOM-UP; PAGE SEGMENTATION; TOP-DOWN;

TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EID: 51149099570     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4378738     Document Type: Conference Paper

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