Text line detection in unconstrained handwritten documents using a block-based hough transform approach

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

Volumn 2, Issue , 2007, Pages 599-603

  Louloudis, G ^a   Gatos, B ^b   Halatsis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; LINE DETECTION; TEXT LINES;

HOUGH TRANSFORMS;

EID: 51149120393     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2007.4376985     Document Type: Conference Paper

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