A complete optical character recognition methodology for historical documents

DAS 2008 - Proceedings of the 8th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 525-532

  Vamvakas, G ^a   Gatos, B ^a   Stamatopoulos, N ^a   Perantonis, S J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; ELECTRONIC WARFARE; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; IONIZING RADIATION; MILITARY ELECTRONIC COUNTERMEASURES; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

CHARACTER DATABASES; CLUSTERING SCHEMES; DOCUMENT IMAGES; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; IMAGE BINARIZATION; POSSIBLE ERRORS; PRE-PROCESSING; SEGMENTATION APPROACHES; SEMI AUTOMATICS; TEXT LINES; THREE STEPS; TOP DOWNS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 57649200429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2008.73     Document Type: Conference Paper

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