Robust recognition of degraded documents using character n-grams

Proceedings - 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 130-134

  Dutta, Shrey ^a   Sankaran, Naveen ^a   Sankar, K Pramod ^b   Jawahar, C V ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b Xerox Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Character N Grams; Degraded Documents; OCR

Indexed keywords

DEGRADED DOCUMENTS; DOCUMENT IMAGES; INDIAN LANGUAGES; N-GRAMS; POST PROCESSING; ROBUST RECOGNITION; WORD ERROR RATE;

COPYING; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84862061986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2012.76     Document Type: Conference Paper

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