Combined script and page orientation estimation using the Tesseract OCR engine

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Unnikrishnan, Ranjith ^a   Smith, Ray ^a  

^a GOOGLE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Page orientation detection; Script detection; Tesseract

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS;

BEST ESTIMATES; CANDIDATE SETS; CONFIDENCE SCORE; CONNECTED COMPONENT; EFFECTIVE ALGORITHMS; OPEN-SOURCE; PAGE ORIENTATION; TESSERACT;

ENGINES;

EID: 84904559086     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1577802.1577809     Document Type: Conference Paper

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