An efficient word segmentation technique for historical and degraded machine-printed documents

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 178-182

  Makridis, M ^a   Nikolaou, N ^a,b   Gatos, B ^a,b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WORD SEGMENTATION;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 51149101433     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4378699     Document Type: Conference Paper

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