Multilingual OCR research and applications: An overview

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Peng, Xujun ^a   Cao, Huaigu ^a   Setlur, Srirangaraj ^b   Govindaraju, Venu ^b   Natarajan, Prem ^c  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

application; document processing; multilingual OCR; system modeling; text recognition

Indexed keywords

DOCUMENT-PROCESSING; HANDWRITING RECOGNITION; RECOGNITION MODELS; RESEARCH AND APPLICATION; SCRIPT IDENTIFICATION; SYSTEM MODELING; TEXT RECOGNITION; TRAINING DATA;

APPLICATIONS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84883894049     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2505377.2509977     Document Type: Conference Paper

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