Hybrid page layout analysis via tab-stop detection

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 241-245

  Smith, Ray ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM UP METHODS; DATA TYPE; OCR ENGINES; OPEN SOURCES; PAGE LAYOUT ANALYSIS; SOURCE CODE IMPLEMENTATION; TESSERACT; TOP-DOWN MANNER;

EID: 71249104707     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.257     Document Type: Conference Paper

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