A new Arabic printed text image database and evaluation protocols

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 946-950

  Slimane, Fouad ^a,b   Ingold, Rolf ^a   Kanoun, Slim ^b   Alimi, Adel M ^b   Hennebert, Jean ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c Business Information System Institute   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVALUATION PROTOCOL; FONT SIZE; GROUND TRUTH; LOW RESOLUTION IMAGES; PRINTED TEXTS; TEXT RECOGNITION; WORD IMAGES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SECURITY OF DATA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 71249124851     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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