A window-based method for automatic typographic parameter extraction

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 1375, Issue , 1998, Pages 44-54

  Hertz, Jacky ^a   Hu, Changyuan ^b   Gonczarowski, Jakob ^c   Hersch, Roger D ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Typographics Ltd   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRONIC PUBLISHING; PARAMETER EXTRACTION; TYPESETTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CHARACTER FEATURE; CURVED ELEMENTS; HORIZONTAL BARS; LOCAL PARAMETERS; RELATIVE POSITIONS; STRUCTURE ELEMENTS; VERTICAL STEMS; WINDOW-BASED;

RASTERIZATION;

EID: 62449237477     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/BFb0053261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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