Preprocessing and structural feature extraction for a multi-fonts Arabic/Persian OCR

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 213-216

  Kavianifar, Mandana ^a   Amin, Adnan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; EXTRACTION;

CONTOUR TRACING; GLOBAL FEATURE; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; IMAGE FILES; ORIGINAL IMAGES; PRE-PROCESSING STEP; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; SUB WORDS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84902832208     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791762     Document Type: Conference Paper

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