Correcting broken characters in the recognition of historical printed documents

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 364-366

  Droettboom, M ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Business; Carbon capture and storage; Character recognition; Combinatorial mathematics; Degradation; Optical character recognition software; Optical design; Printing; Robustness; Shape

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON CAPTURE; CHARACTER RECOGNITION; COMBINATORIAL MATHEMATICS; DEGRADATION; DIGITAL STORAGE; INDUSTRY; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION; OPTICAL DESIGN; PRINTING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

BROKEN CHARACTERS; CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE; COMBINATORICS; CONNECTED COMPONENT; OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION (OCR); OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION SOFTWARE; PRINTED DOCUMENTS; SHAPE;

DIGITAL LIBRARIES;

EID: 84941278377     PISSN: 15525996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204889     Document Type: Conference Paper

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