Learning on the fly: Font-free approaches to difficult OCR problems

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

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 571-575

  Kae, Andrew ^a   Learned Miller, Erik ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts Amherst   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER MODELS; CONTEXTUAL MODELING; ITERATIVE PROCESS; OCR SOFTWARE; ON THE FLIES; TRAINING SETS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 71249158762     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2009.260     Document Type: Conference Paper

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