An automatic method for enhancing character recognition in degraded historical documents

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 553-557

  E Silva, Gabriel Pereira ^a   Lins, Rafael Dueire ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

character recognition; historical documents; OCR; physical noises

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; COMMERCIAL TOOLS; DOCUMENT-PROCESSING; HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS; INFORMATION LOSS; PHYSICAL DOCUMENTS; PHYSICAL NOISES; RESEARCH AREAS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; DEGRADATION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

HISTORY;

EID: 82355182471     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.117     Document Type: Conference Paper

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