An efficient algorithm for segmenting warped text-lines in document images

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

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 250-254

  Oliveira, Daniel ^a   Lins, Rafael ^a   Torreao, Gabriel ^a   Fan, Jian ^b   Thielo, Marcelo ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO   (Brazil)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c HP R and D   (Brazil)

Author keywords

camera documents; document image processing; page segmentation; Text line segmentation

Indexed keywords

COMPETING ALGORITHMS; DOCUMENT IMAGE PROCESSING; DOCUMENT IMAGES; F-MEASURE; FLATBED SCANNERS; PAGE SEGMENTATION; PARAMETER-TUNING; PRE-PROCESSING STEP;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84889601835     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2013.57     Document Type: Conference Paper

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