Arabic handwritten text line extraction by applying an adaptive mask to morphological dilation

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

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 100-104

  Khayyat, Muna ^a   Lam, Louisa ^a   Suen, Ching Y ^a   Yin, Fei ^b   Liu, Cheng Lin ^b  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

Author keywords

Adaptive Mask; Arabic script; Morphological Dilation; Smearing; Text Line Extraction

Indexed keywords

ARABIC SCRIPTS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; HANDWRITTEN TEXTS; LINE EXTRACTION; MATCHING SCORE; MORPHOLOGICAL DILATION; PRECISION AND RECALL; ROBUST METHODS; SMEARING; TEXT LINES;

EID: 84862106454     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DAS.2012.20     Document Type: Conference Paper

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