Enhanced active contour method for locating text

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 222-226

  Navon, Yaakov ^a   Kluzner, Vladimir ^a   Ophir, Boaz ^b  

^a IBM HAIFA RESEARCH LAB   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

active contours; document analysis; formatting; style; styling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CONTOURS; DOCUMENT ANALYSIS; FORMATTING; STYLE; STYLING;

IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 82355160936     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.53     Document Type: Conference Paper

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