A fast alignment scheme for automatic OCR evaluation of books

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 754-758

  Yalniz, Ismet Zeki ^a   Manmatha, R ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

digital libraries; OCR evaluation; sequence alignment

Indexed keywords

ALIGNMENT ALGORITHMS; EDIT DISTANCE; GROUND TRUTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENTS; SUB-PROBLEMS; TEXT SEGMENTS; UNIQUE WORD;

ALIGNMENT; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

TEXT PROCESSING;

EID: 82355182380     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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