Display text segmentation after learning best-fitted OCR binarization parameters

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 4032-4043

  Fernández Caballero, Antonio ^a,b   López, María T ^a,b   Castillo, José Carlos ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN INFORMÁTICA DE ALBACETE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Binarization; Learning; Optical character recognition; Text segmentation

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATIONS; BIT MAPS; HUMAN INTERVENTION; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; LEARNING; SEGMENTATION THRESHOLD; TEXT SEGMENTATION; USER VERIFICATION;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

CELLS;

EID: 82255192298     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2011.09.162     Document Type: Article

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