Dataset and ground truth for handwritten text in four different scripts

International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Alaei, Alireza ^a   Pal, Umapada ^b   Nagabhushan, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MYSORE   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bangla; ground truth; Handwritten dataset; handwritten document segmentation; handwritten recognition; Oriya and Kannada scripts; Persian

Indexed keywords

BANGLA; DATA SETS; GROUND TRUTH; HANDWRITTEN DOCUMENT; HANDWRITTEN RECOGNITION; KANNADA SCRIPTS; PERSIANS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; DATA PROCESSING; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 84867708977     PISSN: 02180014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001412530011     Document Type: Article

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