Automatic selection of binarization method for robust OCR

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1170-1174

  Chattopadhyay, T ^a   Reddy, V Ramu ^a   Garain, Utpal ^b  

^a TATA CONSULTANCY SERVICES   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Automatic algorithm selection; Automatic generation of training data; Binarization techniques; Evaluation; Machine learning

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATIC SELECTION; BINARIZATIONS; DOCUMENT IMAGE ANALYSIS; EVALUATION; MACHINE LEARNING APPROACHES; PARTICULAR ALGORITHMS; TRAINING DATA;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84889594223     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.237     Document Type: Conference Paper

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