Recognition of multi-oriented, multi-sized, and curved text

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1399-1403

  Chiang, Yao Yi ^a   Knoblock, Craig A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

curved text; map processing; ocr; raster maps

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER LEVEL; COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS; CURVED TEXT; DYNAMIC CHARACTER; LAYOUT ANALYSIS; NON-HOMOGENEOUS; RASTER MAP; TEXT LABELS; TEXT LINES; TEXT RECOGNITION; UNSTRUCTURED DOCUMENTS;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 82355192066     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2011.281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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