Non-uniform slant correction for handwritten text line recognition

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

Volumn 1, Issue , 2007, Pages 18-22

  Bertolami, Roman ^a   Uchida, Seiichi ^b   Zimmermann, Matthias ^a   Bunke, Horst ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SLANT CORRECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 51149104374     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4378668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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