A system for hand-written and machine-printed text separation in Bangla document images

Proceedings - International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, IWFHR

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 758-762

  Banerjee, Purnendu ^a   Chaudhuri, B B ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bangla script recognition; Printed and handwritten text separation; SVM classifier

Indexed keywords

BANGLA SCRIPTS; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; CONNECTED COMPONENT; DATA SET; DOCUMENT IMAGES; HAND-WRITTEN CHARACTERS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; PRINTED AND HANDWRITTEN TEXT SEPARATIONS; RECOGNITION ENGINES; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEXT SEPARATIONS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

SEPARATION;

EID: 84874249559     PISSN: 15505235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICFHR.2012.171     Document Type: Conference Paper

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