Script Recognition-a review

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 2142-2161

  Ghosh, Debashis ^a   Dube, Tulika ^b   Shivaprasad, Adamane ^c  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ROORKEE   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT   (India)

^c SAMBHRAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Document analysis; multiscript document; optical character recognition; script identification

Indexed keywords

APPEARANCE BASED; BELONG TO; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; MULTILINGUAL ENVIRONMENTS; MULTISCRIPT DOCUMENT; ONLINE DATA; SCRIPT IDENTIFICATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 78049529924     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2010.30     Document Type: Article

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