Integrated segmentation and recognition of connected Ottoman script

Optical Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Yalniz, Ismet Zeki ^a   Altingovde, Ismail Sengor ^a   Güdükbay, Uǧur ^a   Ulusoy, Özgür ^a  

^a BILKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

connected scripts; historical document analysis; information retrieval; optical character recognition

Indexed keywords

BUILDING BLOCKES; CONNECTED SCRIPTS; CONTEXT-SENSITIVE; DIRECTED ACYCLIC GRAPHS; HISTORICAL DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; INTEGRATED SEGMENTATION AND RECOGNITION; LONGEST PATH; PRECISION AND RECALL; RECOGNITION METHODS; SCORE FUNCTION;

EXPERIMENTS; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; SEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 75149136096     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: 15602303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.3262346     Document Type: Article

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