Multi-oriented Bangla and Devnagari text recognition

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 4124-4136

  Pal, Umapada ^a   Pratim Roy, Partha ^b   Tripathy, Nilamadhaba ^a   Llads, Josep ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bangla and Devnagari text; Character segmentation; Complex text recognition; Convex hull; Document analysis; Indian script OCR

Indexed keywords

BANGLA AND DEVNAGARI TEXT; CHARACTER SEGMENTATION; CONVEX HULL; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; INDIAN SCRIPTS; TEXT RECOGNITION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION USE; RESERVOIRS (WATER); ROTATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 77957021324     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2010.06.017     Document Type: Article

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